https://www.norwegianamericanhistory.org/digital-collections/files/original/4a2b0255f31b583ff49c95b04e91a444.pdf 20fbece1fb67ef77c0f4c08b68abca67 PDF Text Text NARA MSS Norse-American Centennial Papers P 562 SCRAP BOOK �I q i 3 i f II ;. t ' I r-; I I 11 �) (. I navian.s entering the country to .see!� climatic condHlons and -0ccupatlona1 tQ opi,ortun1Hes similar to those which they were accustomed in their native lands is characteristic of the method by which the thirty-·seven millioris immJ.grant.s ent8'l:"Jn,g tMs country in the . pa.st one hundred themselves !::::====#z==============I years have di.sti-ibuted over the entira area with its ,great variety of soils, dimate and indus­ trial opportun!�ies. Not only have the Scandinavians sought -out a sec­ tion ln the v9ry center ot <the coun­ try, offering· cond-itions similar to those to which they were accmstom• ed, but •this is true to perhaps a lesser degree of the other groups of people. Ot the l 1-2 million Ger­ mans ln the United States in 19:! 0 Clim.ate and Industrial Oppor­ over 2 0.0'1) 00 were in the State of tunities Guide Immigrants Illinois! 151,000 in Wisconsin; 10 0,000 fa Minneso , ta and th,e Dakotas; In America .and 12 0, 000 in Pennsylvania. To the Poles, coming from the norther!\ -Of 'Europe, the mining and Scandinavians Take to Upper eection inanufactur1ng seqtions of thi e coun­ Mississippi Valley,· lr1"sh try offer special ath·aotions, for out I of 1, 140 ,0 00 Poles in the United Like Cities States in 19 2 0 1 78,00 0 wer,e 1n Pe11n• sylva.nia, 16•2,0 00 in Illlnols, 1 03,00 0 More than one-.ha.,1£ the 1¼ mil- in Mienlgau, about 15 0,000 in the 1ion Scandiniavians in the United New E·n;;land states and 2 47,000 in Stateii are, grouiped in the half New York .state. O! the 1,400,000 Ru.ss'1ans iu the d-ozen staites represented -by the great a,udience a ·ddressed by Presidenl country in 192 0 tl1e mmmg and the Norse-American manufacturing states nalW absorbe<t <Coo•J.ldge at Oe'lltenniail ce-leibraUon at St. Paul a a large proportion, Pennsylv1;1,nia :f.ew days ag,o. T,he latest popula- 1 6 1, 000, llllnols 117 ,00 0, New Eng­ tll')n figures of the Uni1cd Slta-t.es, l,i,nd 147, 00 0, and New York state • I/lays the Trade Recoxd ,(')'f The Na- 529, 000. The cities seem especially wttrac­ _t,ional C:i,ty Ban1t o.e New York, show the number of natlrves of the tive to the natives of freland, for of the 1,037,00_0 natives of Ireland 1Scan.dinaV'ian countdes residing in the United States in 19 20, the I<aitest ln 192 0 111 t h,l,s country, 284,00 0 were official fi,gures, at 1,178,596 , of In ;New Yori{ state, 183,000 in Mass� which number 6 25,580 were n•ati-vei. acht1s�tt.s, and 121.000 in Pennsylof'.Sweden, 36 3,862 of Norway, and vanla. 1 While the southern states, witl1 189,154 of De11mark. Ou,t of, thls grand tota..l of 1,1 7 8,596. Scandinav- their genial climate, have attracted .!ans in the United States in 1920., the 'comparati< vely fe,w, the op•portunity census r.eports show 219,209 living in for o,utd·oor life· In the gi·ll.ln and Ml·nnes-ot,a, 53,2 8 5 in No,rth Da.,k o·ta, fruit areas of California have given 31,369 il1 So,u,t<h Daikotia, 83, 7 49 in tha t state a lar-ger numlb·er of while Wisconsin, 57,857 in !Cl'wa, and 16 0,· persons of foreign birth than any ot'her state.s except New York, Penn46 0 in rJJinol.s. How d•oes it hap,pen, ru;,J,6 th" sylvania, Massachusetts, Michigan, J Trade Record, that mo·r e than o•ne- and lnlnols, the total n1.1mbei· of t •half orf ,the 1 ¾ mi,Nd-on Scandi-na.vians "fQre!gn.fborn w)J. tes" in California enlte,ring the country, c,h lefly arri'llli11g in 1920 being 6 81, 662 , a nun,Jb er . ug.h tho Atlantic ports, trave·led only exceeded by the States of New t.hro the thousa·nds of md1lea nec , eSIS<arY. to I Yor,k, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts esta,blish thelr homes in this :pat• and Illinois, despite t1,e. fact that , .try? 'the average "forel(&'n-born white" rUoular secUon. ot the coun Ol ima1Jl,c cond.itions and o,pportunl· ente1•lng the United States had to ties fo,r ocOU!Patlon stm<ill:a.r to those tra vel a di.stance of 3000 m!Ies to es­ to which they had been a,c,customed taJbllsh himself on the Pacific coast. in their native land seem to- have The offl-�l·al records show the total been the gr-eat causes of. the l<ong- number of' immigrants entering the di.stance movement olf the.se people country !11 the past one hundred •3Jfter passing throug,h the Atilan.tic years at 37 mlll!ons, wMle the total ,ports· for the state;; throu,gh wihdcih numlJ;>er of "foreign-born whites" 1Vhe, y cn:tered, New Yorlt, Pennsyl� in the United States in 1 9•20 was 2, 7 8 6, 11 :l were van.i a and M�sa.,ch-usetts, reta.in but, 13,7_12, 7 154,_ of whom a amruLI percentage of the who1I in Neiw York, 1, 387,850 in Pennsyl­ 1, 077 ,­ numbeir', more than cr,a-Lr o . f that total vania, 1, 206 .951 ii1 Illinois, s, 72 6 ,63 5 in ' be-in g grou.ped in thl,a convpara • 534 in Massachusett tiveily small area m any dayJS and Mi·chigan and 6 81 , 662 In Callfornia. r 13,7U , 754 "foreign.born I r ig.hts of tr,avel d'rom the 1i-0r:� Of the whites" in the United States i11 1920, . through wihicJh th€-y entered. Euro'Pe, I This disposition ot the Scandi• 11,914, 6 '\ 7 w(lre natives of and 7 3. 824 natives of Asia. nor.r:::xcr: AT.\ .�W!l MARCH l:l, l�J., St. celebr and Minneapolis will I ext J , e the 100th anni- ' the nding of the first / Norse set in this , country,) Pre!!iidellt has promised to t�ke part m the celebration. Some ' of �he ll),Ost sturdy citizens or the Umted St . ates, especially\. of the !lorthw�st, are descendants of these 1�dustr1ous and thrifty !Norwegian pioneers, whose advent into the life of the nation 1s to bE> +'itt.ngly com­ memoratect. J eeun1111,;, Clinton (Minn.} A'dvocat• TH'!JRSD,fl:Y. MARCH 19, 1925 A CENTURY OF NORSE MUiRATION I I lnformntlon With the Amerlenn Centennfnl, I Long before the Nordic myth was' fostered in the United States it .was re­ cognized that the sons and daug hters of Norway who has come to this coun-, try to settle had made an i nvaluable; contribution to the Amf'rican race I Unlike many othe r peoples, they had'. not confined themselves to industries and to urban occupations alone, but·· had take n up t he land, and had proved themselves to be hard-working, dili-­ gent people, earnest in their desire to become absorbed into American life, and at the same time contributing to it the fine qualities wttic h they had brought wit h them rrom t heir sea.girt �omes, What is less generally known is that t his great Norse migration be­ g·an just a hundred years ago, and that it was, larg·ely due to the impetus of a small band of Norwegian Quakers Who came to this country in 1825, Lu­ red by the accounts or English trave­ lers ':ho surveyed the western count ry of Illinois and Missouri, t he people or all Europe were turning t heir eyes to _ th is promised land. Among t hose won by the glowing ac­ counts of this transatlantic parad ise was Kl�ng Peerson, from Tysver In the N <>tweg1an County of Stavanger, w ho _ VISlte d the United States in 1821 wit h Knud Olson F;llde, and upon his retur n to the old country m 1824 prev ailed upon some of his nelgnbors to set sail for America. This they did i n a sloop, Restauratlonen by name small 4t h ot July, 1825, t here being fi n he f; / pe1;-sotj's inthe company. After n��::.. ous :fti venture s, including the finding _ of a ,!JiPe of wine floating on the sea nofj f:ar from Madeira, amr the birth of a daughter to one of the passengers, they reached New York Harbor. Their ve ssel which was nf only forty-five tons burden, small even for t hose days aroused such interest that the s hi� ne'.vs r e porter of t he The New York . Da1Jv Advertiser worte i n that paper �1 - l haveover 3 , 5 0 6 church� 1 5 0 0 - -A Novel Sight. " A vessel has arriv.ed a t this port I clergymen ,and contribute annually $ 4 , 0 0 0 , 0 0 0 . 0 0 to Church, with ·emi�-rants from Norway. The j about ves.s�t is very s mall, measuring , as Charity, Mission and religious edu­ we understand, only about 3 6 0 Nor- catio n. They have 30 Colleges, wegian lasts, or forty-five American Academies, Normal Schools, and tons, and brought fifty-three passen- Theological Seminaries, 38 Children's gers, male and female, all bound for Homes, Old People's Homes, Rescue , O :rLeans county , where- an agent who Homes for Girls, Kindergartens, and i came over some time since , pur- Day Nurseries. They have over 3 0 0 Home Mischased a tract of land. "The appearance of such a party sionarie s stationed in the pioneer of strangers, coming from so dis- fields, logging, mining, and fishin g tant a country and in a vessel of a camps, and the large cities. B.eing size apparently ill calculated for a that Norway ranks very high among voyage across the Atlantic, cou ld nations in Foreign Mission interests, not but excite an u nusual de.gr.ee of it is only reasonable that those who migrated to America carried this in­ interest. "An enterprise like this argues a terest with them. Therefore, they good deal of boldness in the masteT hav.e developed large Mission Fields of the vessel, as well as a n adven- in China, Madagascar, and Africa, l turou s spirit in the pass.engers, m ost where they have hundreds of mis- ' of whom belong to families from the sionaries, th ousands of native work­ vicinity of a little _ town at the ers and contribute millions annual­ southwes tern extremit y of Norway, ly. near the city of Stavange r. Those As there is practically no illiteracy who came from the farms are dress . in Norway, the immigrants and their ed in coars e cloth of dom.estic ma nu- descendants have. been specially in­ facture of a fashion different from •, t.erested in establishing and main- ' the Americans, but those who, in- J taining schools and pubtishing ' habited t-he town wear calicos, ging- l hou ses and publishing papers and 1 hams, and gay shawls, imported, we ' periodicals in both languages for the general enlightenment of themselves presume, from England. "The vessel is built on the model and the rest of the Americans. Their first pastor, Elling Eielsen, common to fishing boats on that coast, with a singl.e. top-sail, sloop- •wa? ordain.ed in 1 8 4 3 . They built rigged. She arrived with the addi- their first Church in 18 4 4 in Racine I t ion o f one passenger born on the County, Wisconsin. Organized their first Synod in 1 8 5 1 . The first Amer­ way." The name of the vessel was " Res- ican newspaper in the Norwegian taurationen. " It left Stavanger , language appeared July 2 9 , 1 8 4 7 . It Norway, July 4, 1 8 2 5 , and arrived at was called "Nordlyset' (The North­ New York, October 9th, t he same ern Light) , and was publish.eel in the yea r . Every one of the passengers town of Norway, Racine County, landed ·in good health an-d· spirits. A Wisconsin. Since that time over 4 0 0 papers , child was born to Mr. and Mrs. Lars Northwood, Ia. , A nch�r '. Larson on the voyage. She was 1 have been published in the Norwe­ THURSDA,�. APRIL 2, 1925 given the nam e Margaret Allen in gi a n laniuage in 8 9 cities · in Ameri­ honor of Mrs . Allen in London who j ca. �resent there are 5 0 pap.era ' of which 2-are daily � two semi­ had befriended �r. Larson. These Norse "pilgrim fathers and weekly. The rest are , ekly or mothers" who came over in this monthly. The first Norwegian Aca "Mayflower of the North" settled in Orleans County, N.o w York, and the higher learning was founded· i ,1 8 5 2 . I n 1 n o th.ere were 2 , 2 3 3 , 5 0 This Year To Be Observed as hundreds and thousimds of their ' countrymen who follow�d: them dur- wegians in America, and when • Centennial Jubilee. ip bear in • mind that the good ing this century have settled and developed large parts of Illinois, Wis- "Restaurationen" brought the or iSmall Vessel Brought 360 From the consin , Minnesota, Iowa, the Dako- nal 53 Norwegians to this country 1 8 2 5 , we realize that there has be n . tas, and beyond to the Pacific Ocean Mothet' Country to New York some development both here and and way up in Canada . They w.ere In 1825, hard working, frug::il, and ind u s- Norway. And when their desce ants gather to celebrate the eve , trious, and blazed tho way in dethey can do so with the satisfacti veloping the American wi lderness inof having contributed some of 1 8 2 5 was a significant year for t o the most prosperous and progressfinest and mol;\t desirable elem America as it marked the begthqjpg ing region of the World. They a . ___,_.,.r11.ra-"!J"'l'J�'"'" �'"" into Amer i�c! of Norwegian immigration t ol t h� came from a free country to a free .:. an from country, country £ducated country. This is ther.ef� the ' Cen- , educated an country. They reptennial year and will be ohliefll'rl!!e.-,,, to a National Celebration in Minnea. resented a civilization and culture polis, �. and 9th, when of a thousand years development. Norwegian-Americans will gathe r They were better Americans before by the hundreds of thousands from th.ey le ft Norway than some of those all parts of the country to celebrate who have been trying to Americanize th.e event. Local celehrations will them after they came here. As a rule the Norse immigrants also be conducted throughout the came here empty hand�d, but they cou ntry. In connection with this event the w.ere not empty headed or empty following clipping from\ the New hearted. Preeminently, they were a York Daily Advertiser for October religious people and wherever they 1 2 , 1 8 2 5 may be of interes t . It settled they built churches, educa­ tional and: Charity institutions. Th.ey was headed. in the issue of Oct. 1 2, 1826, that"an enterprise l ike this argues a good deal o:i; boldness in the master of the ves sel, as well as an adventurous spirit in ' t he passenge:rs " H,e added that the y ! wore all bou_; d\ for Orleans County, N. Y., where a?agent had purchased a t ract of l and for them. From thi s smal l beginning a vast m i gration g-rew. Many moved west from Orleans Counts- rnto Illinois and were joined by relatives and friends. Graduall y the Norse migration spreacl into w i lderness. of Minnesota and the . Dakotas, and down into Iowa and Mis­ souri, and a small but vtg·oro1'ls colony grew up on the Northwest coast, de­ vot0d primari l y to fishing and shipping. 'l'hosc states which have considerable strai n s of Norwegian l)lood In their po1111 lation are justly proud of this fact. 'J'hcy have given to the nation .S1•n atoris and Governors. More import­ ant t]1an this, they nave runlshed a race of sturdy Americans, self-reliant m111 hard-work ing. Proud as th e Norse stock has been of i t R European h omeland, Its members hav,, heen peculiarly free from tempta­ tion to which some ot!1ers have fallen, t o 1n1t the interests of the fatherland allovC' those of the United States. Al­ th ough such college,s as St. Olaf's, at Nortbfi<'ld, Mtnnesota, and Luther Col­ lege, at J)ecorah in Iowa, have long bei;n adm i n istered an d attended largely by P<'l'Sons of Norwegian stock, they haYn been 1frimarily American schools, and it has been the great desire O<!-·, thost' who taught them, as well as of 1 those who have gone to the State and local schools, to merge entlrely with the native American stock and to place the interest s of the locality and the State above thos,e of race. When K!eng �eerson set out to help his fr1 0nds I n Norway a h undred years ago hP u n wittingl y perform ed a great ser­ vice to tho United States. -New York 'l'tm es Februa ry 22, 1 925. I NORWEGIANS IN U. S. 100 YEARS I �United States; the Premier of Canada It i s-good blood .this northernor a member of his cabinet, will Norwegians, Danes and I st rain. speak for the dominion to the north, Swedes q u ickly are welded into the and D. Fritjof Nansen will appear for mold of Am erican citizenship. l�rom the mother country. A di�tingu1·shE)d "'1"!&&'! 'NQR the coming of the fi rst pilgrims, in son of Iceland will represent . the � NTENAR • . most a had have eople p these , 5 2 8 1 elabmg ill been city, of St. Paul;wfuc famous island where the Norsemen ':D. • � � ·• � settled a thousand years ago and or ' e preparations for 'her Norse centenary 'n June, important part in the development of the nation 's great Northwest• whence they sailed to America alf , ls• · .fr:eshly stimulated . to continue them by the They are a th rifty, sturdy, hardy; , most five hundred years before • ction of the governm:ent of Norway' in _announcing democratic race. Like the earli�r Columbus saw the western world. I In addition there will be athletics, • Iiat will officially. send to the celebration merribers Pilgrim Fathers who settled the lectures, exhibits and entertainments of the Norwegian cabinet, . th� state diurch and the ' New England states, the No� 1 of an appropriate character. A Peab­ i l to r enjoy s ame reltgious c m i g f torthing. . The festivities are in commemo ration o . sant Wedding (Bonde!>ryjlupl _wjth · erty. They did enjoy it, and more. costume, music and games will be its on,e-hundrecltli anni_versary of the fi-rst_, ship_load Their descendants have enjoyed i t 1 one of the many interesting features. of i mmigrants from Norway t o reach .these shores , d"own to the present hour. They The civic organizations of the Twin and. it is fitting that the ceremonies _'shouldI Cities will co-operate in perfecting - • be of an i won, as time passed, places high in G overnment councils and i n state arrangements and in making the stay imposing and impressive character. of all visitors in the two cities inter­ administ ra tions ; in U tel'ature and _ e th popula portion of that of s 'Th e s tu.tdy qualiti� • esting and enjoyable. No less than iu i ndustry ; especially were they tion o·. f Minnesota that is -of s�a11dinavian des_·cent is builders of homes aud a h i gher civ2,700 Lutheran congregations, the kno,;vn throughout the length _and bread th of the ilizatiou in the nation's colder 1 Norwegian colleges, seminaries and academies ; the numerous Bygdelags, land. Distinguished representatives of it have areas. lodges of the Sons of Norway the This same blood, in older hisadorned the halls of congress, the bench, the. bar, all and various other societies and or­ m fro' down wept s periods, torical , ganizations have been assigneq places the earne,d professions and all branches of commerce the North i n adventurous galleys in the Centennial and are taking part and industry. Nor has 'Min,'leFota any monopoly of to change the destinies of A frican, in the preparations. these Americanized sons of ,Scandinavia-they are FJgyptian and Roman civilization. The site selected for the celebra­ liberally scattered ov,er the entire Northwest and But in America. its fusion happily I tion is the geographic center of Nor­ wegian population of America, and everywhere they have made good as community appears to make fo1'. progress and · the Twin Cities have long been recog­ evelopment rather than for a weak founders and builders. Their loving regard for the and retrogressi,·e amalgamation. _., nized as a center of Norse art, learn­ ing and culture. The Minnesota His­ old country has at no time and in no way served torical Library contains the largest to less,en their 'staunch ,loyalty to the new. collection of Norse-American litera­ P' :,vwan' 't��r. The visitors from Norway will find much in Min­ t1J1re in America. THURSDe � 'l, 1925 nesota to remind them of home. In the descendants of the original immigrants physical traits may per­ sist ; Scandinavian hab�ts of thought and action Unlike some gatherings where peo- 1 have not been obliterated, but that fact does not im­ pl� of foreign races assembJe, the peach the_ quality of their America,11.ism or serve to great �ele Ta,tion t.o,. b.e. .heldj shortly in the Cities, holds no dang­ ·check t��- ardor of their enthusiasm for the country ger of any over-enthusiasm to the t in which they� have fared well and prospered and detriment of this country. ImmigTants t :.the general welfare and prosperity of which th,ey from these northern countries have � . _ hav • ontributed. been among the sturdiest, most loy­ • al, 'pa triotic and desirable pioneers, Th� se-fmerican Centennial, of and the people of the w'hole country the U. S. an Caflll.tiit_, which will readily join iil the spirit of th_e cel­ celebrate its 100th anniversary on bration. ·u - ill be a big success. r!Jl'G'CTNN ATl - romm mNO ...y June 7, 8 and 9, will be one of the THURSDAY� MA¥ �:i, im: greatest events in the history of the A Yiking Ceutemu l. • association and should be of special -, "r.qfton 7N. n.1 �"WS anrJ ,-; ... . interest to all people of Scandinavian The cen tennial of the arrfvai of FRIDAY,. M�Y- 29..J:2_2�, decent. The purpose of this Centen­ the first Norw egian settle rs i n this UENTI< -: NNIAL cm;E URATION . nial is to commemorate in an impres­ • country 1s �e brated throug h­ TheTe is deep significance to t he mark which events the manner sive out Ameri ca during th� coming Norwcg-ran- �ntenniaI Celebration • the beginning of Norse emigration to summe r, with particu larly elabor ate this continent and to pay a fitting wh ich will be helcl i n S t . Paul next ceremo n ial circum stance in Minn�tribute to the Norwegian pioneers of .nonth. No •race :has contributed Jlli.Q.lis, America. We cannot honor too high­ ,uore to the deve'Jovment of this; In Octobe r, 1 8 2 5 , a small Nor­ ly the Norwegian pioneers of Amer,cction of tl1e state than the hardy wegia n vess l entere d New York I are rendered they services The ica. � ,\l orse immigrant, the men of t h e harbor, bean ng :fifteen h omesee k­ of inestimable value and importance. early eigh ties a n d nineties w h o till ers, the first pilgrhn s from the They were among the foremost in 9d the No rlh Dalwta and Minne­ ; conquering the wilderness, in develop­ Northl ands to seel, a wider freedo m I ing it into one of the most' prosper­ ;ota prairies. in the n ew world, wh ose shores ous, most progressive regions of the perhaps were first touche d by their : .A fit ting tr ibute should !be given world. With ceaseless toil and sac­ Viking forbear s. . h eir r,�rt in blazing the trail fol' rifice they helped to push the The Norwe gian GoYern ment is /' [Jn,scnt day deve l o1pment. It was a frontiers of civilization from the se nding disting uished official repre­ narcly, ho nest and courageous stock Great Lakes to the Pacific and by sen tatiYes to partici pate in this im­ chat came into the -s t ate ahe,3 d of their whole-hearted loyalty to their portan t m emoria l of an event so Ile rai!r,c,i,i d and· i n any k in,d of conadopted country, helped to save the 1irol ific of profit to the two peoples . Union during the Civil War. c l'ivan ce that co u l d negot iate ta1e I The 1 n orth bl ood i s widely d is-. This Centennial will be the greatJiff.cull trails often llJeset 'by h ostile I semina ted among the Am erican est celebration ever held by Norse­ ,ndians. They h,ad to figh t a,gainst men in America. The program will ' popula tion, and the Norse populademE nts as well us the redskins; include speakers and musicians of • tion already i n this countr y prac­ their victories w ere not easy on•es, or President, The fame. world-wide • tically equals, if it does not out­ but they stuck to the task and help­ a prominent member of his cabinet, numbe r, that o f the mother land. ed materi 1 l ly in producing a great will represent the government of the .. .. ' •1 " r'l Anacon�.... . ,,-,. T HURSDAY •- £·.L, 9, 19ZS ir it I ----- URSE-AMERICANS -- 1 HOLD CENTENNIAl � I 0 �\Yco rn m onwealth. President Cool :dge, h igh state Jff icials, a n d represe ntatives from ,nany foreign 1a uds will gat h e r at • t h e Twin riUes. It is fitLing and J(eply ;-; g11 i fica11t o f the debt owed c h t SO h a rd y jiioneers LhaL ,oHicial .iot 1l'e is t o l>l' U k en of the ce leb ra­ Lion. '[ h e whole Nort.hwes� is CO-C J}C nl Lu g to m a k e Ll1P l'v r n ' a most o u t­ .; U:cnd ing one in t h e annals of that .,;-:, up o f statEs which ho nors as her Jl u i'<ly citiz(n1-1 t h o u sa n d s of J\:o rse­ mrn. I".13:0U'CAM, HY., J1JNE 8, J.°-25, • sun E NORSE-AMERICANS United ho11,oring the .s 0 · .;t{e continent ence at their great j the Twin Cities )n I 1inn A President never did honor to a sturdier and more industrious race, nor one which has, in pro­ portion, contributed more to thP, upbuilding of the country, The great Northwest, the domain of Jim Hill and the Great Northern, reveals a history intertwined with the life story of the Norwegians a n d Swedes who came to this country to found their fortunes. A self-reliant hard-working -lot through the boldly they went west�rn prair!es, establishing home­ steads, tilling farms, prospering a_nd expanding as the great fer­ tile plains yielded a grateful re• turn to their cultivators. Obsta• cles that a finer drawn race might unsurmountable did have found fought They not checlc them. through to a finish, and frllgallty and industry combined, won tlte • .1 way for them. Unlike some other races the Norsemen have taken up the obl!· gations of citizenship in their 1 adopted land, with few exceptions. They came to stay, and stayed. The descendants of these earlier settlers are American born and have They minded. American mated with the Anglo-Saxon and race distinction has disappeared rapidly in succeeding generations. The virility of the nation has been stimulated ' by the injection of their sturdy qualities. The field that the Norsemen in .America occupy is not limited. They have entered the arts and the sciences, they have produce� brilliant politicians and noted [ economists. In the proportion they I have prospered they have given back to the country that made i possible, and it is fitting that ;J{e state which has known them est, should pause to do them hQltfor, V i n -· ear y-•• , "' �ush City·, lVrinn .. Po�t 1UE�DA , J , FRlDAY, JUNE 5. 19Za THE NORSE-AMERICAN • ENNIAL • CfJiT ,,.,Ji....,..,, , ,,, The Norse-American Cent:,,.,• be held at the St at� air grounds from June 6th to June 9th, inclusive, will be one of the greatest gather­ ings in Minnesota 'this year. Thfs Poets, Novelists, Artists, celebration marks the one-hundredth Musicians on List of anniversary of the coming of the first Famous Norwegians to this country. Since , that time thousands of that nationIn Ii ature, painting, sculpture, and ality have emigrated to the United music t h Norwegian- American people ! States and today there are more Nor- for beauty at has; since the remote wegians and descendants of Nor- have found an outlet for the craving wegfans in the United States than ages, .remained one of the outstanding I heritages of the-.¥%58 ff"�, are to be found in their mother counThis cultural impulse Is re ected in try. These people have figured pro- i the beautiful lines of the viking ships, minently in the pioneer life of the in the splendid ornamen1:a.t1on andwood churches an<l stone monu­ entire Northwest and it is only fit carving onearly times, in needle work ments of and proper that this great celebra- of the Hardanger variety, which Nor­ wegian immigrants introduced in the tion should be held in Minnesota. in the quaint stave It is estimated that at leas . t l00,000 United States, churches of Norway, and in the bright­ people will participate and be in at- hued, painted flower ornamentation on tendance at these festivities. Presi- chests, drawers and utens!ls in the, dent Coolidge, Sec retary Kellogg, Norwegian farme�' homes. Leading to Literature high officials from Norway and the One of the legacies handed down to governors of at least six states ' will posterity by Norwegian immigran ts is be present. 1 a vo lume of Norse-American verse rep­ resenting 45 authors and 250 poems, for it is to literature, more than any other form of art, that the Norwegian temperament fonds it.self most readily. The authority of immigrant verse was published i n 1903. In all, nearly 50 Welcome ! volumes or booklets of Norwegian. to- � American verse have been published. \Vi th the opening 0 £ '!'he most widely known Include "The d a y a t t h e state fair grounds, St. au the cent er of one of the largest and most sig11 i fi • ' Seamless Robe and Other Poems," by Gustav Melby, published in 1914; and cant celebration s in all history. his "The Lost C11imes and Other , Alo11g wit}, the- beginning of this event was Poems," 1918. • • The chief literary form among the th e start of the Northwest Industrial exhibition be, will pioneers the of descendant,;, / a t the Overland build ing. making St. Paul for ' doubtlessly, the novel. The first at- 1 the time t h e hub of activity for t h e mtn and in• tempt at novel-writing were made i n '. dustries that h ave built up this great section of the 70's and 80'.s, and some very ac­ ceptable work has been done since. 0. :the country. . It is fitting that these two observances should A. Buslett, th� pfonE;er of the poets, has turned from the lyric to narrative b e combined, for if the sturdy, adventuresome prose, dealing with the life of the early Norsemen had not chosen the northwe st, and immigrant in :the fields and lu ber principally Minnesota, as the place for their camps of northern Wisconsin. 'im,;m largest s et tle ment s it i s doubtful i f much of Johnson of Fa;i:go, N. D., has ade a name as a novelist. Ee kno s the t h e record for progress eyer would have been prairies of the Dakotas, and hi work made. the has given a moving portrayal The No rsemen were am ong the earliest north­ trials of pioneer days, when the In­ talen Another menace. a was dian "·est pioneers. They s-0011 showed an exceptional writer of novels is Prof. 0. E. Rol­ capacity for overcoming obstacles and advancing vaag of Northfield, Minn. Jobs. B. i n the face of adversity. In every undertaking Wjst, editor of Decorah-Posten ha.s pro­ they succe ed�d. There i s not a pha se of north­ duced two notable wor.k.s-"Immigrant Portraits," and "The Home on the west l i fe i n whic h there arc not No rse l eaders. Prairie." W. Ager, a Wisconsin edi- f It i s a privilege which St. Paul enjoys to the tor, has employed both the novel and 1 ut1110;,t to be able to have them as guests. St. short-story in promoting the cause of Paul owes its eminence i n large measure to the prohibition. I Numbered Among Painters ag�ressiveness, constructive determination and I Jonas Lie, of New York, a nephew pro essiveness of the mighty Norse race. ' of the late distinguished Norwegian r.ovelist of the same name, is one of the foremost painters in the world to­ day. Some of his paintings hang in CHICAGO ILL N1lffl"S the Luxembourg gallery, Paris, Car­ MONDAY, JUNE 8, 1926, negie Institute, Pittsburgh, and in many clubs and public lnstit1,1tions in This country is proud ot Its Amerand America. Mr. Lie painted Europe leans of Norwegian birth or extraction , 1 the Panama canal during construction, who are now'navlng their blg days in and these paintings are declared by St. Paul and Min neapolis. critics to be a color-epic to labor. In his work he shows great versatility, depicting the storm, the thunder cloud, hills and roc.k.s, forest streams, dark, half-hidden rivers, fishing boats, .i.nd a variety of other subjects. rse are L e a d e r s in Many Li�es of Endeavor I I I -• _J , 1 �--xi.1other noted Norwegian-American -flie'Cap1t01 �to m ut:rrrnst capacity" for Ntmtcr is Lars Haukanes, one of two. concerts on July 1 5 and 18, 18 56. w:,Me pictures hangs in the Minne­ Thirteen years later the celebrated vio­ apolis Institute of Art. He has devot­ ed himself mainly to painting land­ linjst gave a second pair of concerts in scapes from the Hardang'er district of St. Paul, on April 30 and May 1, 186<J. Norway. Some fine work . in, Iandscapes At this time he evidently visited f,?-e also has been done by a Minnesotan­ rooms of the Minnesota Historical s ocie ­ Alexander Grinager, who depicts bab­ bling brooks and sunsets rich in lights ty, for in its "Visitors' Register," unde1· and shadows. the date of May 3, 1869, app ears .a b old Well Known Sculptors ignature-"Ole B ull, Valestrand Nor-,J SigVald Asbjornsen of Chicago is 7 " probably the best known of the sculp­ Wiry; tors in the Norwegian group. He has modelled many busts of .American lVIinf" :>'•nv"'i · 1\"' " ri :, St;.,r statesmen, including Grover Cleveland, WEDN�.D...-· , .;i N""" :c, l�c:5 .James G. Blaine and Carter H. Harri­ son, Gilbert P, fawold, of Chicago, who was born f Norwegian lmmi grant parents o� a farm near Baltic, S. D., is another wel l known scul.ptor. Yet another is Paul Fjelde, of New York, formerly of Minneapolis, whose father, Jacob Fjelde, modelled the statue of Ole Bull, which stands i n 1 Loring Park, Minneapolis. owzg··· * The Norwegians are distinctly a musical people. In early times their love of tnusic took the form of skaldic 1 poetry. l!'ew races have a richer heri­ tage of characteristic folk song and melodies. Music, especially choral He�rik Shipstead, scniol' l.:niled singing,, is assiduously cultivated by States senator· from Minnesota, has the Norwegian elemQnt l n America. No center of population is without !ts been characterized by the late Senator 1 singing society. The Norwegian Sing­ Henry Cabot Lodge as "the mo.st ers' league is the p rincipal organtza. p romising of the young men in the I tion of singers. The first of the Nor­ United States senate." Senator Shipstead's parents were wegian-American singing societies was founded at La Crosse, Wis., nearly 70 both born in Norway. Sauve Sliir,- 1 s_tead, his father, was born i t1 Te le­ years ago. marken, and his motheJ·, Christine E l­ Choral Singing Fostered lefson, in Risor. 'l.- l1ey came to C horal singing is fostered generally .A meriqa in 1865 and $j,ltlct on a home­ by the Norwegian Lutheran Church of stead in Burbank, Kandiyohi county, ) America. It ls not only the church Minn., which Jt that time wa.5 70 ' choir that sings. The entire congrega­ m i l es from the nearest railro11d at St. tion jotn.s in the singing of the beauti­ Cloud. ful hymns that have been accumulated Served In Leg·islat ure by the church through centuries of Henrik i1;J one of a fam ily of 1 2 chi!- , singing by the worshippers them­ d ren. He was born in the township ' selves. of Burbank on Jan. 8, 1 88 1 . He at­ In the St. Olaf College choir, di­ tended the public schools at New Lon­ rected by F. Melius Christianson, don, the Slate ·Normal school at- St. there has been developed a choir which Cloud and the dental school of the is recognized as without a peer in the Northwestern universit y, Chicago, United States. He practiced graduating in 1903. Alfred Paulsen of Chicago, and Ole duitistry at Glenwood, M i nn., .for sev­ J Windingstad of New York are leading eral years, where he served as mem- 1 o rchestra directors and composers of her of the charter commission, .mayor I the Norwegian Foremost for one term, and as a member of the group. among singers of the group is Mmu. state legislature of Minnesota during , I ' Olive i<'remstad, for many years an l he 1 917 session. In 1.906 he married operatic star of the first magnitude'. Lula. Anderson. He has one son, age>.l j The Ja·:e Albert Arveschou was a fa­ mous baritone, whose voice was a mar­ vel of range, power and beauty of tone. I • /J.1ost Promi.c;ing of. Y Men in U.S. Senate,' Lodg_e Declared • r,' 0 'Benson. Minn. Monitor THURSDAY JUNE 1 .• 19Z5 � Minnesotans Heard Ole Bul l In 1856 Among the interesting cultural con­ tributions to Minnesota's developm_e�t which are recalled by the orse-.AJli'ef'l­ can Centennial celebration this month are the concerts given in this p ioneer commonwealth by Ole Bull, the great Norwegian violinist. His first Minnesota recitals were given in 1856, when he appeared jn St. Paul, St. Anthony, and Stillwater. -Preliminary notices of the St. Paul ·•concerts announced that among the ar­ tists assisting Ole Bull would be the yo uthful Adelina Patti. The double at­ traction crowded the House Chamber of _ • I SE.\7ATOR HENRm: S H I PSTEAD 7:6. Jn 1 920 he opened a dental office ' in Minneapolis, and 1922 he was nomi­ nated for the United States senate on tl�e Farmer-Labor. ticket. On Nov. 7, 1922, he was elected by a plurality of 83,539, receiving 326,372 votes, against 24 1,833 for Frank B. Kellogg, Republi­ can, who is now secretary of state in the Coolidge cabinet. Senator Shipstead ls described by the popular correspondent, William Hard, a.s being "slow of speech. He is extremely deliberate in manner. He is urbane. He is even deferential. He not only considers his own thoughts before he utters them, but also con­ siders the fee)ings of the persons who will have t,a list�n to his thoug� ts. He has a slow,'iro111c humor. He is medi-_ tative, humorous, polite." , . ,Serving his first term in the United _ Senator Sh1pstead States :;;enate, proved himself to be a great student in economics, when. he produced three classics, "Interest Rates and the Pub­ lic Debt," "Government Interest �Rates" and "Stock Inflation Versus Pros p erity," which have been termed / by prominent bankers t he most com­ plete statement on the gove-1·n •i1ent's fina ncia I policy that • bas ever been made. The general impression among 1 he public is that only a banker is ca pable of understanding economic Senator Shipstead has the p roblems. facul ty of taking tl1ese apparently 'Ompl�cated quest ions and elucidating them m a way to make them intell ig. I ihle to the average man . Ile 1·educes the problem to the least" common , multiple, and In t he final aualysls ;:hows it to be a question of addi�ion and subtract ion. ! Within a few days after his arrival in Washington, he was chosen to serve on t he senate's mo:-;t "glorifyi ng" com- , mittee, the commit tee on foreign rela- • tions. Senatot· Shipstead has taken an a cti\·o interest in the conduct of· for­ eign affai rs, and t he promotion of-world pea:e. He ha;; been quoted in the for. ciim p ress of m:J.ny nations and heralded not only in this country but all over the world as one of the leading ullvot.;ates of disarmament and the abolition of militarism. In his remarks 1 to the senate on F'cb. 23, the senator J u reccivell nation-wide recog·nition when •S eJ he stated "world peace could be obl tained th rough credit control, and the J ul / United States is in a position to d' ste. I late that pol i cy of peace." He 1d 1 further, "we should Joan moneY. for. 1 eign countries for peace purP. es, and " discourage American loans any na• lions making· heavy exp ditures for armaments." In an address on Fe . 7 in the sen­ ate, he offered a prop al in the form of an amendment to n appropriation I uu l hill for the prevention of future wars ilitarists to / by abolish iag p ower o conscri p t men for slaughter. He said, "is it concehruble that the World war J\ I would have been al lowed to commence, S E much less ·ast 50 months, ' if t he gov­ D ernment had been oblig·ed to fight their combat.ants otherwise than by con J1 sct'ip tion ?" This amendment was de­ s, fcated in the senate. He has taken a,11 active interest. in al l important issues that 11ave -.;ome before t he senate, ancl at all times has the i n t.crests of t llc pcop]c at heart. He has the gooJ will of the p eople o� the state and has been very rou::: h en­ if couragcd in his work by g·reat men s j irrespect ive of party affil iations, who :c realize t hat he is a man of great ability, and has b:len a credit to Minne­ J sota. Few men have gone ;nto t h e un1l States senate and i n such short S I time cclrece ived the recogn1t1on and u i• ve1sal confidence and respect that the scmor senator from Minnesota ha.s j re� coived. J n tere:stecl ln Foreign A ffairs 1_1 , I I r"ht r , Ju� 1 0, ,9::.5 HATS OFF, TO THE NORWEGIANS cedents and the great achievements of their pe ople in this country. Inci­ de ntally they have em phasized as well the part the people 0£ the Scan­ din avian peninsula have played in the world's history and early Ameri­ can history, the im portance of whic,1 has been minimized in our ed ucation­ al system. The foundation for the great suc­ cess of the Centennial celebration lay no doubt in the unit organiza­ tions of the Norwegians in America in their thirty-six ' 1bygdelag" organ­ izations, many of the annual con­ ventions of whi ch have been enter­ tained at Willmar from time to time. These "lags" had their big day at the State Fair grounds on Saturday, when all were in simultaneous raun­ ions. Sunday was religious day. -Nev<'!,' 1 has the fair grounds before been nui to such a purpose. The numb er· of 1 people on the grounds that day was , estimated at sixty-five thousand, most of whom attended the services held by the prominent Norwegian divines of this country and Norway. Imagine .i,he horse show am phitheatre crowd­ ed every inch of space by many thou­ sands in a monster Norwegian Luth­ eran servic e ! In the grandstand the • sermons and talks were amplified to reach the immense throngs. Monday was the day when the offi­ cial representatives of the Un ited .States in the persons of President Coolidge and .Secretary of State 'Kellogg, several states by their gov­ ern ors, Norway, Canada, and Iceland by chosen representatives, and many officials of lesser prominence wer,� the guests of the celebration. Ye�terday was sport day with gam es, c ontests, etc, ending up wi th a great pageant in which fifteen hun­ dred characters participated showing scenes of historic in terest. The exhibits included a ctivities of churches and den ominational insti­ tutions, art and pain tings, relics, weaving, tapestry, embroidery, old documents, interiors of early pio­ neer home i n contrast to a modern one, l og cabin, model of " Restaura­ tionen," photos of prominent Norse authors, statesm en, etc., industrial exhibits .by the State of Minnesota, Norway and Canada. Unfortunately the big dirigible ai� hip, the Los Angeles, owing to disabled engines, was unable to come, which was a disap­ pointment. The whole affair, however, was a grand success, well carried out. A!l honor to those whose minds planneu the event and those who helped to carry i t out. 'fhe Norse Centennial celebr tion at the State Fair Grounds was an unprecedented gathering in the his-' tory of the country. It was bold jn conception and carried thru with characteristic determination to a succ essful conclusion. The N orweg­ ians have asserted themselves in this big gathering in so emphatic .a man­ ner that no one ca...., Joubt the j ustifiable pride they feel in their ante- I1 THE NORSE ENTENNIAl The Norwegian centennial celebra­ tion at St. Paul, whicn attracted· thousands of Nonv,!g-ian birt'1 or an­ ( e �try from all sen tion-� of the country had a peculiar interest for the people of the Northwest, for it is in this section that the greater part of the Norse element in our population found its home. The i;entury which has elapsed sinc,e the real tide of Norwegian immigration into the Unit­ ed States began has ,been marked by successive movements which took the Northmen from New York farther and farther inland until thousands of families of those who had left Nor­ way in search of new homes ,establish­ ed themselves permanently in the ver;y · center of the continent. There ilj a.. certain apparent incongruity rn theJ ct that · the Norwegians, from ti'mc immemorial a seafaring people, whose little ships penetrated to the uttermost con:fines of the known world, in whose lives the sea ha.ct played so l�rge .a part, when they I came to establish them s-elves on the new continent should have settled 1n such great numbers as far from the ocean as it was possiible for tilcm to get. The Norwegians have aiways been a pioneering peo·p le. They have de­ lighted in the high adventur e of seek­ ing out unknown places and investi­ And the gatin g new possibilities. same spirit that sent their little vras­ sels coursing up and down the coasts of Europ e and out into the broad Atlantic is the spirit that sent them into the very heart of the new con­ tinent to which they had come and caused them to ,be among the fore­ most to ,esta·b lish themselves ,by the rivers of Minnesot,i and Wli sconsin and on the broad praiue:. of North Dakota. Their desire was not so much to get .away from an old environment as to find a new and test its possi­ bilities. Norway has made a large and splendid contriibution to American life. Her people have developed tra­ ditions and 1been wedded to ,principles which make for the finest develop­ ment of national life. They have !Deen a domestic poo,p le, with the family occupying the central position 1n their lid:e. Industry and thrift ar•e among their most pronounced chara·c­ terishlcs. The same qualities which in the early centuries made them the most feared o f sea rovers have been expressed in equally great m easure, 1but in more peaceful form in the 'building of homes in what to a iess enterprising •people would have ap­ peared a bleak and forbidding wna­ erness. Those -w ho came from the ' Northern peninsula of Europe to thts i Jand ,);lrought iwith them their in­ dustry and enterprise, their love of , home and family, their inde.p endent I spirit and their stroni;- sense of du�y in the regulation of their own activi­ ties and in their relations with others. O ther people hav•e poss-essed these qualities in greater or less mea-sure. Human character is seldom unique. But ours would be a sorry civiliza­ tion were it not for the qualities which have stood out most conspicu­ ously in Norwegian character. I �r r l �;����: fi:! t:e l�nt�i �:�;a :��: science. military brigadier general, in In September, last year, he was rec• for. ommended to the wa1· department . =--======--...;:;== Promotion to brigadier general In the = , ,,_ Jnomination his But army. , regular• was held u p by senate miiltary affairs • ,1 i) A� BJ R 8 e 1t p A O NST D iD�fdn� it J:�� �irg��ia, ��}�; aroused a storm of p rotest from all who him, as well as in newspapers •n r,;, /MINNEAPOLIS NATIVE knew cities where he had served. l\linnesota Rises to Defense IRE'MEN OF No·RSE � 1 Minn�apolis, Minn., Jo1.1rn? SUNDAY , JUNE 7 , 1925• "f"t'l �d�,n L ' �irs TO BE HONOR GUEST Former Snelling· Commandant L"1ste d Among National Heroes of Norse Blood Has Etched Notable Military Record and Won Man:v Decorations H. Among national heroes of Norwegian descent who will attend the Norse­ Amerlcan-�lal ls Brigadier Gen­ eral Alfred W. Bjornstad, who will come to :Minneapol is :from Fort f,tihaha, Neb., where he now is in command of the Seventh corps area. General Bjornstad was born m St. Paui, and has spent a lat·ge part of his life in Minnesota. He was an honor ir-�? "luate of the University of l\tlnne­ .sota in 1896. Practically his entire life has been devoted to the defense of this country. He gained his first mHitary experi­ ence as a membe1· of the Minnesota National Guard, then served a11. cap­ tain of H Company, Thirteenth Mlnne­ llota Volunteers, In the Spanish-Am crl­ can war. He was severely wounded at the battle of Manila in the Philippines, and later was in 33 other engagements 1n the Islands. In 1901, he entered the regular army as a lieutenant in the 29th Infantry, was made captain in the 28th Infantry In 1903, and was military attache t.o Berlin in 1912-13. From 1915 to 1916, he was military instructor at the army staff college, and direc ted 16 training camps for officers of the National Guard, in 1917. During the World war, he was first chief of staff of the 30th Division In 1917, and later chief of staff of the Third .Army Corps in France. He later ar- , g-anlzed and directed the Army General Staff College in France. Wears Nuinerous Decorations Numerous decorations and citations bear wi'lness to his bravery on the field of battle and efflcieFJcy in the organiza­ tion of military units. He wears the Distinguished Service Cross, the Dis­ tinguished Sel'vlce Medal, Companion of St. Michael and St. George (British) and Legion of Honor and Croix de Guerre (France). Not onl y did he achieve fame as a Mldler, but as an author of military literature, for he is coauthor With Colonel Merch B. Stewart, of the Infan­ try ' Drill Regulations, which every soldier in the infantril" studies. He was successively lieutenant col­ onel, colonel and brigadier general dur­ ing the World war, but atter his re­ turn from France was reduced to the rank of colonel, in accordance with the governments policy of returning to peacetime strength with its peacetime quota of officers. He was placed in command at Fort Snelling in 1� 19, where he remaine.d /three years, and then was given one of the most importa:_n t tasks in the United States army- when he was as­ signed to Fo11t Benning, Columbus, Ga., as assistant commandant of the In• fantry school. At this school he had 0 BLOOD SHOW' WORTH BY DEEDS OF VALOR Chief Ringer Says One of Chief Qualities Is Devotion to Duty -Heroism Recalled la ;� �:;�:��;� ;��ti8; ��c��! P;;l���j Bjornstad was the only Minneso ta man I ever recommended for promotion to Minne apolis nre fighters of Norse b rlga tlier general in the regular arnW , ancest ry have proved their mettle and but latgely because the charges ag'ainiit have grown in to the fire dep artment him were decl_ared untrue and unju st. so weil that 20 p er cent of tho force Protests were made by Senator El- ls of Norse a ncestry, Chief C. W. Ringer unmajor a as served had kins, who said last night. . der :Bjornstad, but who had been trans"In the early days of the �inneapo!1s ferred bMause he lacked training and I1 fire department," Chief Rmger said, experience necessary for a long major "the Norwegian did not number v_ery engagement, in tho last month ot the many In the membership, but as time war went on this race of peop le, who now � a result of this transfer, intended are numbered among our best citizens, \ accordservice, tho of good the for only emigrated to this country, a large num- 1 ing to those who testified for him at ber of them being attracted by the , the senate committee hearing, Mr. El· beauties of our state and G!ty. Making kins attem p ted to block the ap point- their homes among us, they gradually ment of the colonel to brigadier gen• increased in number in this clep artmont, \. era!. There was nothing p ersonal in un t il today more than 20 p er cent of the transfer requested by Colonel Bjorn- the mem bership is men of Norwegian stad, as he had met Major Elkins on !?' d escen t . once witnesses said. When Bjornstad s Malce Excellent Firemen regl�ent was ordered ' to prep are fd r , A heroi c feat performed by Cap tai n major operations, he asked that a more I John Berwin, who was born in Nor­ experienced man be appointed to re- . way and emigrated to this country .place Elkins as adjutant. when 20 years old, and who at the :firs_t The promotion of Colonel Bjorns tacl opportunity became an Ame rican clti ­ was approved by General Pershing and zen and entered the service of the Minne­ a board of five majo1· generals. Soldiers apolis fire department, was recalled by who served under him at various times ' Chief Ringer. volunteered to testify. They declared on January 10, 1906, the day of tho amon g other things, that durin g the disastrous West hotel fire, when eight time he was commandant at Fort Snell- persons were killed, in addition to three 1ng, the Third Infantry was one of who .died later from effects of injuries, the most, if not the most, efficient reg!- Captain Berwin, although off duty at ment In the regular army. Among the the time, responded with his company Witnesses called to Washington was to this alarm. form�r Governor J. A. O. Preus. While working at the fire, he raised a Major General Robert Lee Bullard pomp ier ladder from the top ot an 85testified before the sena te committee foot extension ladder on the Fifth on military affairs that Colonel Bjorn- street side of the West hotel, and, as­ eta.d's military record was one of the cending the pompier, lifted a wo man best in the army, particularly as an ou t of a window. organize r and planner, and for that She was a woman weighing mor P. reason the army needed him. than 200 p ounds. The p ompier ladder Opposition to his promotion collap sed, swayed, causing Captain Berwin to lose and tho senate In February of this year his balance. Feeling himself falling, confirmed the nomination, with no p ro- , he mana ;; ed to throw the woman onto test from any senator. a balcony a few feet away at his left. Plunging backward to the street be­ low, he was killed. The woman, how­ ' ever, esca ped unhurt . Norse or Norwegian Controversy Revived ; Whether to be Norse or Norwegian, is a controversy ot long standing in some circles, which has been emphasized as a result of the Centennial. Historians to find justification for eithe r or both terms, e.nd the favorite argument in fa..vor of using "Norsemen" In America ls that a Norwegian might be said to be a citizen of Norway while a Norseman is a person of Norwegian ancestry, and in the case of Americans, one who has become an American ci t izen. 'Norse "Old Country" Wedd'ing Conducted : A real "old country" wedding was I conducted by Hardangerlaget, NQr­ wegian "lag," at the fair grounds yesterday. Princi pals and attendants were in ative costume. Preceding 1 the wedding, a business session of the Jag was conducted, and aft er ·the wed­ ding a banquet wa.s given. Professor K. Eiterheim, Decorah, Iowa, wa.s the prjnc!pal spo er on the program. Nils ;Rogde, Haak county, South Dakota, 'pld-time fidd,r, also entertained the p!its. I • ' - ---•- • J 'l'ruclunan Helps Snve 27 AnothP-r feat, which Chief Ringer re­ calls as performed by a Norwegian fireman, was at the time of lhe ]fourth 1,treet fire, where several lives were lost. Nicolai Jurgens, truckman on Hook and Ladder No. 1, assisted In the rescue of 27 persons in thlll spectacular fire, a pomplcr ladder being raised from the top of an extension ladder which pumitted the rescue. . Jurgens remained at his post ui:til the 27 were rescued. He escaped in­ jury, and later was commended by Ch1et ;Ringer. �,t ' C- R OESBEC'TC, TBX. , JOURNAL JUNE 2o, lfl:&o. THE UNSUNG Ml'LLIONS nt Ooo� used hras his Norse cente1.__ ape'eoh ri!hy of special e.iwph asis - ,e�c sp:.:kb of th-e • ·unsung millions," tO:ie plain1 Rnd quiet ·peopile who <laily dis- ' 1 play, mode,st and .un pretentious i virtue,\:'.. ''l'he heroic is found not I merely in tlhe -e �piloits of our ! so'ld'iers and in the idea1s of i our statesmen. It is found in \ th/e d1ai ily toil of the peopLe who ha'Ve built up this coun- 1, try in spite of great difficul- 1 ties and sacriifdces, prominen't among wihlom were the Norse­ men, in w.hos-e 'honor Prei� i- ' dent ol.idge has just spoke1 r, · r l· ;i.A.WUS (It'.!? ES. B'.A!ITS431 J U NE t>, lV2t>. � '' OUP.GE HAS- PRAlSE FO NORWAY'S SONS : I T HERE IS a great deal in the personal character of President Coolidge to appeal to They are a sober, the people of Minnesota hard-thinking b ¥' men, simple in their tastes, rather taciturn, not given to emotional outburst or passionate clamor. The direct-mindedness of the President, his hard sense, his clarity of expression and his love of the solid virtues are particularly re$;,i,ated by these sons of the hardy No semen. The P' � spoke, too, of tlfo things that have an ab�icting place in the hearts of these people, the kindly authority of the father, the love of mother, the devotion of children, the sacred home. He rested the enduring quality of our institutions on the perpetuation of the family relations. They are the well springs of orderly gcvernment, from which proceed the most precious I posses�ions of the human race-religious freedom, 1 freedom of education, economic opportunity and ) the integrity of the law. l These simple tLcmes ,1npeal to the people of the Northwest. The homel) vi, tues are well understood ' and practiced among them. In choosing them as the basis of hi.; address, President Coolidge demonstrated that he understands his people and is keenly sympathetic with their ideals and aspirations. They, too, understand him. NORWAY PILGRIMS/ TO TH I S &OUNTRY\ P R A fSE D 8 Y C A L' i j· To the adaptab ility of thes_e people., Mr. Coolidge said, "the n a tion o,F 'l , · much for i ts success in the 0normu,1s I process of ' a sr;irnilat ion and spiritu:i l • ! un ification that has made our natiou I what it is and our people what they \ are. "Eager for l>oth 110litica l anrl ecol nomic inclepenlleuce, they ealizecl thC' 1 President Fiflds Kindred Natures in 'Minnesota i JllCHlGAN CIT1'" TND ll'SPA TCII MONDAY, ,TTTN l!, 8, U;',6, · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · ·:; : State Fair Grom1ds, l\1inneap- : : olis-St. Pa,ul, Minn., J une 8.- : : President Coolidge, in his ad- : : · c11·ess before ...1bo Norse A1nerjl\an : : centennial celebration here fo-'"! : day, paid glowing tribute to the : daring of the blont1 sons of Nor: wa3·, siugl ing out especially tlle : intrepid Amundsen, now missing : somewhere in the icy wastes : near the top of the world. : '·They found the western : ocean," he said, "and it was a : Norseman who first traversed : Bering strait and · demonstrated : that there was no land conuec­ : tion between Asia ancl North : merica "' "' "' *. Within a few : years, one of them first tra­ : versed the northwel,t passage : from Atlantic to Pacific, and the : same one, Amundsen carried the : flag of Norway to the. south : pole ; and now within a few clays : past, he has again been the first : to make l arge explorations in the : region of · the north pole in an : airplane, tempting a fate, which, : as I speak, is unknown." I ". ,~,iz,r, Preside:- Mr;ripcipal S p e e c h at Ceii'teuuiaJ , Celebration at Minneapolis of Norwegian Settlers. j' I State Fai r Grounds, Minneapolis, M i n n . , _ June 8.-� Tne president paid fine tribute to the part played by Norwegian stock in this building of the nation, and his : a udien ce, many of them descendants ! of the pion eer Norwegian coloni sts I who arrived at New York 100 years :a go aboard the sloop R-esla uration en,� to' which qie presi dent compared ths arrival of the Ma yflower, res1JOil(]ecl , appreciatively. necessity for popular education, a n d so have always been among t h e most devoted supporters of public school s . Thousands o f them volunteerecl i n the service of the country dining the civi l and Spanish wars, and tens of thon1 sands in the world war. "The i nstitutions and the manners of democracy came naturally to them. Their glory i s all about you, their' liv­ ing and their mighty dead. They have given great soldiers, statesme n , sci­ entists, educators, and men of bnsi' ness to the upbuilcl i n g of their adopted ! conn try. They have been rapi dly 1 amalgamated into th e body of citizen- 1 ship, contributing to it m a n y of its i best and most cha racteristic ele- • 1 ments." The president d i d not confine J1is lau clation of America's foreign com­ , ponents to t h e Northmen . He paid homage to that great mass of common people of all ra cial origi ns tllat m ake up America-" the u n sung m i l lions of _ I plain people whose n ames are strangers to public place and fame. 1 "Their li ves have been replete with quiet, un pretenti ous, modest but none the l ess heroic vi rtu es," he s a i d. "From these has been com posed the sum of that magn i ficent alHl wondrous :i.dven­ ture, the mak ing of our own Ameri ca ." An it is to thes_e , the presi dent said , t hat America owes all it !s and all it j wm be. 1 ' 1 I j "Its in stitnl.ions of religious l iberty, 1 ; of educational ancl econ omic O l)por- I 1 tunity of constitutional rights, of the in tegrity of the Jaw, are the most pre­ cious possessions of the lrnman race," he said. "These do not emanate from the government. Theil' abiding place . is with the people. "They come from the consecration of the father, the love of lhe mother, , and the devotion of the children. 'l'hey are the P\'Ocl uct of that honest, earnest I and tireless effort that goes i nto the rearing of the family altar ancl the making of the home of our conntry." AddresRing hiJm;C'lf cli recll y to his / a udien ce, the 11resitlent sal.d : , "They can have no stronger su pport' ers, no more l oyal defen ders than that great body of our citizensh i p which you represent. ,Vhen I loo!, u pon you l and 1·ealize what you arc and what you have cl one, ! k n ow that i n your hands our country i s secure. ' "You have lnicl np your trea sure iu what America represents a n d there your heart will ue a lso. You h aYe �1 given yom pl edge to tf1e l n n d of the The nl edge o[ Ille Norwegian ' people has n ev<?r yet gone u n re1 cleemed." . t . . I. The president revealed lmnself m a new vein in c8rtain parts of his speech - that of a scholar. His sketch of the progress of no rweg i a n colon ization of i the middlewest and west was finely drawn and delved beh i n ll the mere facts of history into llleir sign i ficance. IJe sought the broad implicati ons be­ hind the major facts of progress a n d among his con clu sion s wa s a state_ _ 1 mcnt that be believ ed Arne1r1ca 1.o have : been a "llracon lamp to tlle feet and hope to the h earts of liberals through­ out Eu rope" from 1815 to 1848. "We may well wonder w hat woulrl have been the fa,l e of Europe ::i ft.er 1815," he sa i d , " i l' Lhe li beral ism of both Englanrl a n d t ll e con tin ent l w ,1 settled down to (l iflnppaintmenl �111Ll cynicism ." The presi den t u rgetl more sturly into t he great "regi ons of the past" in American hi story, decl aring "somE'­ ,,... here in t h e epic struggle to subju- 1 gate a conti nent there will be found a phil osophy of human relations that 1 the world will greatly prize. I "If we cou lLl seize it ::i n d fix it, i f w e could turn it over, examine arnl ,,·u n dersta n d it, we w ou l cl have tak en \ a long step toward solving some of the- hard est problems of mankind." The presiden t said he thought such ·c elebrations as the one he1·e were val1 uabl e beca use they tended to focus at­ tention on portions of nationn:l history that otherwise would remain unex­ �1lorecl. I free. I I " I ti R a good thing that anniversaries such as this are s o widely com memorated. · The next few years will b e filled with a contiulJing s uccession of similar occasions. I wish that C'very one of them might be so impressively celebrated that all Americans would be moved to st udy the history which each on e repre­ �ents. I can think o f n o effort that would produce so ti1uch i n spiration to high and intelligent patriotism. I * * ,� " I t is i.()t so many years since \' isitors from other I quarters of the world were wont to conteniplate our concourse of races, origins and interests, and shake their heads ominously. They feared that from such a m elting· pot of diverse elementti w e could never draw the teste d, tempered metal that is the only sub- I _ stance fo r nat10nal character. Even among ourselves 1 were many who listened with serio11s concern to such f forebodi ngs. They were not quite sure wh'ether we ' had created a nation with the soul of a nation. They J won dered if perhaps we had m erely brought togeth er : , a large number of peopl e in a large place. H'ad these 1 misgivings b een j ustified when the hour of trial came it would h ave meant disaster to us and to the world. · But in stead of crumbling into a chaos of discordant elements America proved its twly national unity. It demonstrated conclusively that there i s a s piritual • quality shared by all races and conditions of men 1 which is their unusual heritage and common nature. * * * "These norsemen whose beginnings we here celc­ brate have exercised a great influence upon our mod­ ern history and western civiliz2.tio11 wh.i ch i,t is difficult to match among any other like n umber of peo­ ple. Iu rna1ty ways their influ ence upon Northern and Western Europe may be compared to that pf the Greek States upon the the civilization of the Mediter­ l ranean. They were the first deep-sea navigators. They pion eered the migrations which boldly struck across the western waters. They were at once the terrors of the Western Roman Empire and the guard­ ians of the Eastern. The med-ieval M e diterranean was a happy hunting ground for them. They branded their name upon French ·N ormancly, and from it des­ cended upon Britain in the Norman (:.0nquest from which there was the beginni11g o f modern English history. * * * * l "One likes to linger over these tales of adve nturt' ' a n d exploration. O n e of them has a special signi­ ficance i n· connection with this celebration which en­ titles it to more particular reference. This, of course, is the voyage o f the little sloop Restaurationeu, wJ;iich in 1825 brought the first organized party of Nor, wegian immigrants to• this country. One reared on the ! New England tradition of the Mayflower will find all the materials for a uew legend of pioneering in the _,,. 1 ·! voyage of the Restaurationen. She was a ,sloop of 45 1 tons, whereas the Mayflower was rated as 180 tons. Shows Great Influence They Exerted on I The Restaurationen sailed f rom Stavanger; Norway, on . . . jl July 4, 1825, with a desperately heavy carg·o of iron Modern l-hstory and Western ' anu ,1 narty of 52 people. She came safely into the Port ji of :I', .w York after a voyage of 14 weeks, which com. T . C1v1 1zatlon , .r pares with nine weeks required for the historic pas,,ag:! �of the Mayflower. '* * * Almost without money or _ supplies, the little company of immigrants were takeri ' Minneapolis, June &-Before tWe Norwegian Ccnin charge by the New York Quakers who raised full(:\,-,, l tennial Celebratio iy at M i nneqp'olis l tod�y President to send them to Kendall, Orleans county, N. Y. There Coolidge spoke in pa r t as)O'l1ows : they secured lands and established the fir.st Norwegirn I "This celebration 1s most happily iden tified with settlement in this country. * * * the present year, which is an anniversary of notable 'There is one phase in 'the story of immigration which events in the history of our country. We are round- , s eems always to charact·erize it. Once the tide had set i n g out a century and a half from the b eginning of in 'from a particular European country, the movemt11t the America 11 R evol ution. I t was a half cen t ury therea f ter has i nvariably 6een encouuaged by the early , from the days of Concor d and Le xi n gton to the be- corne !'s. Not only did they urge relatives and . friends l gin11ing of that stffam o f immigration from Norway in the old home to come, but they devoted th1C1r 11ew- ! which w as to help guarant � e that t he spirit of fr�e- f ound pro-spcrity to help them. 01 this subj ect) thrrc i s _ : dom which had been so trmmphaut in the Colo111es a n opportunity for some useful h1stoncal research. In \ I should not be los t to the States. '* * * the pre-Revolutionary d,.ys immigration to America . ----=================�=t���;\ S O D E CO LI NG LAUD O L D O R S E M EN I I �seems h} have • bcc11encouraged from the other side, • partly from political and partly from business motive,. The colonizing countries qf Europe competed lo control the best parts of the New ·world by occupying it with Jthei r colonies. Immigration wa� encouraged both by the governments and by companies o f merchant adven1 turers. At that stage of the movement, of course, the colonies possessed no wealth to help their friends · to come. But a fter the Revolution the si tuation greatly •l,hanged. New politieal conditions made this country 1�.ore • attractive than ever before, and developiug wealth and opportunity emphasized its invitation. So we find the people of our Republic delicberately a(1d consciously • encouraging the movement in this direction. There is opportunity for a much more detailed examination of these factors in ' the European migration than has yet . been m1<lertake11. It would be a -profoundly interesting ....__ contribution to the story of this greatest of all migra- l tions that humanity has ever accomplished i f we could know more of the precise movements which have �ni­ mated it. "The c-ontributiou of this country to financing immi­ gration of the la-st century and a third has certainly run I into huudreds o f millio11s o ! d�llars, perhaps into billio!l ". j _ _ _ _ It has bad a profound social 111fluc11ce, bnth here and 111 Europe. Its economic cousequences could hardly be overestimated. '* * * The European migration to the American Continent represented in its various phases all the causes that have operated through the ages to bring about such shi fts of population. '* * "' "Th,.sc Northmen, one o f whose anniversaries we arc celebrating today, have from their first appearance on the margin of history been the children o f freedom. 1 Native to a rigorous climate and a none tuu productive soil, they had learned the necessity for hard work and careful managemen t. They were moved by that cispira­ tion for a free holding in the land wltich has always marked peoples in whom the democratic ideal wa-s press­ ing for recognition. Eager fot both pulitical and eco­ nomic independence, they realized the necessity for popular education, and so have always been among the most devoted supporters of public schools. * * To their adaptability the nation owes much for its s11ccess in the enormous proces-s of assimilation and spiritual 1 unification that has made our nr:.t4on what it is. and our , people what they are." * Alexandria, Minn., Ect,c '!'HURSDAY. JUN"IL1l. 192.5 _. Presiden t l/oolidge Pays Res to Norsemen and Their "T11ese miglity�orks htve oeen made to it by the5'candinavian coun--=President Calvin Coolidge paid a wonderful tribute to the character wrought because those Norwegian im- I tries. " B e<'" ise of a profound apprecia­ and achievements of the people of migrants were well worthy to follow Norweg'ian descent in the Northwest in th: wake of the Pilgrim and the tion �.,� that contribution and of its . . truly national value I have found it �day when he spoke at the Minne­ C�;ah�r. . . This celebrat10n is most happily an especial pleasure to come here and sot�r Grounds to a crowd that d to full capacity. identified with the present year that join in this commemoration. In the filled the is an anniversary of notable events in midst of loyalties that are all beyond He said, in part : possibility of question it ;way be dif"One hundred years ago a little the history of Otlr country. "When we _con�ider the ast?nishin g ficult to choose amon� 'e many nabark sailed from Norway to America, l , th,;,,t have It was dmost unnoticed at the time, numb�r o� immigr�nts which t�e tional and racial gro contrisought out America for their home \1 save for the daring and hardihood of Scandi?avian co�ntries h�ve its navigators, but it brought with it buted m proportion to their own pop- and their country. We are · thankful the representatives of a stalwart ulation to making the body of Amer- for all of them and yet more thank­ race, men and women of fixed deter­ ican citizenship, we will appreciate ful that the ex;eriment of their com· sar · mination, enduring courage and high the significance of this �nnive: ?it mon citizenship has been so magni­ ficently justified in its results. character, who were to draw in their �t well_ �eserves t�e c �nsiderat1on _ which "These Norsemen whose beginning retinue a long line of their fellow is receiving here m this state procountrymen destined to change the has so richly profited by a largerimmi- :11 America we here celebrat� • have rope exercised a great influence upon our face of r.n area broad as an empire, 1 portion of this north-of-Eu commonwealth. modern history and western civiliza· direct the historic course of sovereign gration than any other "1\:1:innesota would not be Minnesota tion which it is difficult to match states, and contribute to the salva­ but for the contribution that has been f among any other like number of peotion of a great nation. �orous climate an o no 4manat e from the ple. pro uc"In many ways their influence upon tive soil, they had 1e• ed the neces:• Government. Their abiding place is northern and western Europe may be I sity for hard work and careful man- with the p e ople. They come from the compared to that of the Greek states I agem ent. They were tnoved by that consecraf;ion of the father, the love upon the civilization of the Mediter- aspiration for a fret holding in the of the mother, and the devotion of ranean. They were the first deep- land which has always marked peo- the children. They are the product of se a navigators. They pioneered the ple s in whom the democratic idial that honest, earn est and tireless efmigrations which boldly struck across was pressing for recognition. fort that goes into the rea ring of the the western waters. They were at i "Eager for both political and eco- family altar and the making of the onc e the te·,rors of the western Ro- nomic independence , they realized the home of our country. They can have man empire and the guardians of the necessity for popular education, and no stronger supporters, no more loyal eastern empire. The medi eval Medi- so have always been among the most defenders, than that great body of terranean was happy hunting ground devot;_e d supporters of public schools. I our citizenship which you represent. for them. They branded their name Thou sands of them volunte ered in the I "Whf:n I look upon you and realize upon French Normandy and from it service of the country · during the what you are and what you have de scended upon Britain in the Nor- Civil and Spanish wars, and tens of done, I know that in your hands our country is secure. You have laid up man conquest from which there was ; thousands in the World war . "The institutions and the manners your treasure in what America repthe beginning of modern English hisof democracy came naturally to th em. resents, and there will your heart be tory. "But even before William of Nor- Their glory is all about you, their also. "You have given your pledge to the mandy had conquered at H astings, living and their mighty dead. They Li,£ the son of E,ik, ne= 600 yearn have given great •oldien, >tatesmen, Land of the F�. The pledge of before Columbus appe ars to have scientists, educators and men of busi- Norwegian people has never yet gone found the New World. Indeed, there ne ss to the upbuild ing of their adopt- unredeem e d." seems little doubt that s everal cen- ed country. Th�ave been rapidly turies before Columbus saw the light amatgamated into�'l!' bully of citiof day there was born upon American zenship , contributing to it many of soil, of Nor se parents, a boy who af- its best and most characteristic eleterward became so great a mathemat- ments. "To their adaptability the nation ician and astronomer that his studies mav have contributed much to the owes much for its succ ess in the enor­ fund of knowledge which helped Col- mous process of assimilation and umbus formulate his vision of the spiritual unification that has made our nation what it is and our people world as w e know it. "These sons of Thor and Odin and what they are. the great free North shape themselv"Although this movement of people es in the mind's eye as very princes originated in Norway, in its essence of high and hardy adyenture. From and its meaning it is peculiarly It has nothing rtbout it Norway to Iceland, from Iceland to American. Greenland, from Greenland to the of class or caste. It has no tinge of mainland, ste p by step, they worke d aristocracy. It was not produced their way across the north Atlantic. through the l eadership of som e great They found the western ocean, and it figure. It is represented almost en­ was a Norseman who first trave rsed tirely by that stalwl}rt strain who strait and demonstrated t�t make the final decisions in this worlrl, l Bering there was no nd connection which we designat e the common p eople . I tween Asia and North America. j "It has about it �he strength_ of �he I After telling the familiar story of the voyage of the Restaurationen, the · home and the fireside ; the family ties of _ the father and_ the mother, the President went on to say: 1 "It i ,i not possible, as it is certain- childre n �nd the kmdred. It has 3:ll ly not necessary on this occasion, to ?een carried on very clos e to the soil, even summarize the story of Norwe- 1t has all been extremely human. "W�en I consider t�e marvelous re­ gian i mmigration. But it should be explained that while th e settl ement sults i� has acc�mphsh�d I_ can not in 18 24 in Orle ans county, New York b�t believe that 1t was �nspired b? a was the first Norwegian settl ement, B:igher Power . J_I�re 1s ':omethmg the s e pioneers we re not the first Nor- vital, firm. and abidmg, whic� I can w egians to come here Consider able only describe as a great reality. " An enormous power ha� come to numbers had come ev;n before the Revolutionary war and some as far you, but you are cha�g�� :with equal­ ly enor_m_o�� respons1biht1es. T�ose back as the earlie t colonial days. "There we re rwegians in both responsibihties you have never falled al'my and navy during the Revolu- to . meet, that � ower you �avE: never tion and the w·ar of 1812. But the failed . to sanctify. There¥1 hes the fact remains that the great movement solt: title . to all th e glory yo� ha':'e which e stablishe d N orwegian com- a_chieved m t!te past and therem will munities all over the northwest and he the_ sole �itle �o all the glory that contributed so greatly to the building yo� w�ll �chieve m the fut�re . . _Behevmg that there reside s m . an of this p ai::t of the country began with enhghtenecl_ people an all-compelhng the voyage of the Restaurationen. "It is said that Norwegians and fo:ce for righte ousness, � have every their descendants in this country are faith that through th_e v1gorou_s per­ now just as numerous as the popula- formance of your duties y_ou will add tion of Norway itself. Norway i s new l usterfo your glory m the days credited with furnishing a larger to come. l thltt it repnumber of settlers to the United I "Our America wit State& in proporti_gp to its population resents of hope in t world is now 1 i than any other E\ll'opean country ex- l and will. be what yo make it. Its institutions of relig ; cept one. J us liberty, of •. "These Northmen, one of who educational and e nomic opportu� anniversaries we j&l'e celebrating to- nity, of constitution rights, of the �. liave from their Jrst appearance integrity of the la , are the most on the margin al �ry been the precious posse ssiollS of the human children of fre edolfl, �ative to a rig- 1 race . l :J ! If· 1 :,.. �n CH 12, 19.2� { f' t o RELIGION J R A IT f No Rs E IMMIGRANTS T O UN IT ED STAT Es most valorous of wliich con stitute d h is ship's cr e w and fight ing forc e . T he insui-mountable mountain range s and lack t'f communicatio n facilities furthe r te nded t o develop th e individti raits of th e different com���i � / 11 h 1 t 1 vi� �nl� :��u.� i or° �Km�t bodies, but th ey were mtoleran t of ;U����J� j I I �i��o�t���e��i�s��� �h�� Itf o� th�-� � , Norwegian Lutheran churches, with­ in a mile or two, fre qu en t ly i ndicated th e ir se tt le m ents. As a resul t of th e i nfluence of liv­ i n g i n a level coun try wi th con veni­ ent communicatio n facilities , the peopl e b ecam e acquain te d. They i n­ Norse Conquer By the term a rried and th ey mingl e d wi th Plow Rather Than the e ac h o ther sociably, and the resul t was a mutual de sire for co ncerted Sword Says Shipstead Bv IL B. J{ ILDAHL efforts in church matters . In the seventi es of the 9 th c en tury, ST. P A U L-Ameri ca's c i tizens M in i1eapolis, �l .Ip c..,onnec­ the pett y kingdoms of Norway w ere of N o rse descent were c h a racter­ t i o n with the Ce nte nn ial ce lebr afion ized as a "race t h at c o n q u ers by u n i ted u nder kin g H arald H a arfa gre, of the begi nn ing of Nptse01M'lnigra­ and i n 1890 three Norw egian Luth­ t h e p l o u g h rat h e r tba n t h e -sword" o by U n ited States ·Senator H e n r i k -... p was ti n to A�tca, o.... eran ge n eral ehurch bodi e s wer e uni t­ h i pstead of M i n n e sota i n an a d ­ be of much sign ifica1,c e to the heal thy e d in to o ne un der the n am e of th e S d re11s at M o n d a y n i a ht's centen • d evelopment of our country, it is in­ United Norwe gian Lu th eran Church n i a l p r o g ra m . teresting· to note t he achi e ve ments oi of Am e rica. a p e o p le," dec l a red In 19.1 7, th is body an d two o t her peace - l o v i n g tn is p art of ou r population. Senator S h i pstead. bodies w e re united and took th e na me Religion A Trait "T h e y are b u i l d e r-SJ n ot dest ro y • "The Norwegian Lutheran Church of ers. T h e y a re a race of worki n g Bei ng a religious people, the i m- America". A t prl'sen t there are three m e n a n d women a n d t h e i r achieve­ re gamigrants naturally form ed cong o the r general Norwegi an Lutheran m e nts i n this land of t h ei r adop­ tion s an d er ec ted churche s in the ir church bodi es i n Ame rica, but e f­ tion a re p roof of the st urdy q u a l i • t i es o f t h e i r stock." midst, b e sides institut ions of learn - fort,; a re be ing made for fur ther amalgamatio11. in g and chari ty. Their religious earThe Norwegian Lut h eran Chu rch ·e.vs n estn e ss i s farth er e viden ced by th e of Am erica co n sist s of 490, 000 mem7, 1925 fact that i n Norway there was, an d be rs, 2,79 0 congregation s an -1 1 ,3 0 0 still is, a state church, and the ex- pas tors. p enses i n conne ction with the ch urch Church H as Six Departments arc paid from the natio nal treas ury The Norwegi an Luth eran Church and coll ecte d by taxatio n , the same of America has orga nized its work WELCOME, · NOR SEMEN! as all t he other expenses of th e into six departments : The Depar t ­ h a lf of 300,000 citi zen, of St. Pa u l , I extend a h e a rty a nd state . B e cause of the fact t h at the men t of E duca tion . The For e ign Mis­ • m er i c a n ome to those w h o are o u r g u ests Norwegian pion eers were u naccus - sion De partmen t , The Hom e Mission n e 6 to 9 . tome d to co ntribute directly to any department, the depar tmen t of Char­ W e cons1 it a g reat privi lege t o 'have the h o nor o f e n tertai n i n g c hurch activity, i t see ms re markable ities, th e Public a tion de partment, and s o f persons w h o are here from N o rway, Canada that th ey adapted the ms elve s so read- th e departme nt of Ele men tary Christ­ the m >1 ny t h o u a n d all parts of U i States. W e ho nor t h e desce nda nts of t h ose ily t o the ir n ew e nviron ment and ian Educa tion. The work of . each hardy p i oneers w h o n ited t h e i r homes in N o rway, d i led to America on i depar tmen t s managed by a gene ral con tributed so readily and l iberally board the northwest a n d h e l ped e rect c i ti e s t h at and e ach has an exccu­ the Resta u ra t i o n , cam to church, charity and Christian e du- tiv e s ecreta ry inboard its servic e . Tha bear t h e m a r k s of N orw • n bra i n a n d brnwn a n d b r o u g h t wea lth cation . acknowledge our debt to t h ose men Departme nt of Publication is not o ut of v i r g i n p ra i ri e soil. It may see m qu eer that these peo- only self-supporting but i t contribut­ and women who b r o u g h t to• M• i• nn-esota with them t h e i r stro n g v i rt u es ave g o n e i nto t h e hi a k i n g of i n d ustry, t h rift a n d ple, who came from a comparat ive ly es to the work of the church i n o the r small cou ntry and were a ll of o ne department s from its net earn ina;s. of t h i s state church body, should divi de in to so The annual budge t for the other five \j{,-lffl'liil you to p a rti ci pate in a l l of t h e good t h 1 man y diffe re n t sy nods of gene ral departments has b2e n about a million m m i ttee h a s p re p a red fo r y o u , P l ease feel free t o church bodi e s. r a n yt h i n g y o u m a y desire ; it w i l l be o u r pleasure to respo In 189 0 , th ere were and a quarter dollars which is raised se ven gen eral Norwe gian church bod- by voluntary contribu tions. Since w h e n you d e part we want you to feel t h a t you a re welcome i es i n Ame rica . The reason for this 1917 th e Ch urch has approp1·i at ed $8,­ P a u l a n y, time you may wish t o ret u rn-w h i c h we si ncerely ho . 0 97.41 -MAYO R A R TH U R E. N E LS Of t his sum the people 7.1 5 is, t o some exten t , th e fact tha t be often, Norway is a very moun tainous coun - of the church have contributed $7,valleys. 375,55 1.3 0 , which leaves a deficit of 1 t ry, cut up by fjo r ds an d Each v alle y d evelope d a dialect and $721 .865.85, and the church ha s d e ­ l cert ain charac terist ics of i ts own . cidecl to raise th is amou n t the first There w ere also different , dis tinc t re - p art of 1 925. This seems a large ligious tendenci es amo ng the p e ople l sum of mon e y, but it is only !'l pe r of Norway, such as th e high church ce n t of the whol e amount contributed a nd low church t endencies, and dif- si nce 1 9 1 7, and when the condition of fere nt shades betwe en these two ex- the tirnec' cover ed by th es e se ven tremes. When the imm igrants cam e years is t aken in to consid eration, i t to Americ a, th ey na tura lly g rouperl sec s £hat the people of the Norweg-­ up religiou s ly with o the rs of the ian ut hcran Church have done remarl ly wel l . sam e re l igious ten d ency. Individual Leadership Prominent A no ther reason for th e m an y church bodies was i ndividual le ader­ s h ip, wh ic h was very prominent in a ncie n t tim e s du r ing t he Viki n g per­ iod. Viking does n ot mean a "w eak ki ng". "Vik" means a bay, and "Viki n g" mean s a man from a "Vik" or "bay m an ", as plainsma n m ean s a man from th e plains, a woodme n a m,an of the woo;;l s. The bay was the mouth of a fjord a nd the fjor d wa s the mou th of a stre am which ed through a vall e y, whe re liv e d l flow a commun i ty and the viking was the 1 chie f or le ader of th e community, the / Erect Many Churches And Schools In Their Adopted Land e 1 e n t �1 Coyotes Talk Over Radi'Q • At Celebration Minneapoli s, June 6 .-To Norse immig rants---st urdy, reliable, ho n­ es t •b uilders of a prosperity fottndcid upon love o f th ei r homes and a sound religious faith-the ,;tate of South Dak o t a i s indebted in Iar,ge m easure for its progress in a single generation from a trac'kless prairie to a n agriculitural paradise, the iRev. H. G . Glenn, pastor of the First Lutheran church of S iou Falls, S . D., declared tonight i n . radio address from Station wee here. ,, Mr. Glenn's address was on n ber on an all South Dakota progra ans of :Norwegia origi n here to atten d the :Nors American centennial celebrati on be� ginning tomorrow. " It may seem one of the eni gmas' of h istory, " said the Rev. Mr. Glenn, "that the hardy Norse r ac e should have settled o n th e expandin g prai­ ries of the middle west. Their tra­ ditions always have been' a ssociated I wit h t h e sea. But t1:�:mgh th ey· Me' the best seamen in t h e world , they j also are lovers o f th e soil as but few pe.op l �� -arc. "It wa,, i n the 7 0 's and t h e 8 0 's 1 that t he 4 'Torsemen streamed int ; ? South L . . JUt. They r f'P rf'sento�1 th e brawn and brain of the midnl,� clasH, character;zed by w i l l i 1·gne,s to work haf'd, pay their d ebt� , improve their holdings and gain independence. s0 uth lhkota nevcloynnc11 t. "Remembai n e: that Yas t s t retch­ es of land we�t of the M issouri river are ;;j.il l uncultivated an d un deve!­ oried, let u s r ecall some of the fi.'�­ u rt>s that tell the story of agricu l ­ tural a n d economicai de,· elo pment. T n ten years South Dakota farm crops h ave increa�ed i n value from $ 9 4 , 0 0 0 , 0 0 0 to $ 2 2 2 , 0 0 0 , 0 0 0 . T wen­ ty y1:1ars ago South Dakot1. ranked 2 3d in corn production ; now it i ; eighth. South Dakota i n 1 9 2 3 ranked fi.r st among a l l stf\t.E's in p er­ centage of merclr n n lable cGn1 . South D a kota ranked s ixtll i n oatr; produc­ tion. fifth in barley, seventh in rye, first in wild hay, and am ong th fir:;-.t in 11. Ifalfa acreage. Live ste el{ s h i pments outs'de th e sta t e run as high as $ 1 7 0 , 0 0 0 , 0 0 0-a year. South l D akota ran11rs t h ird in the produc­ tion o f hogs per farm. "These facts and fir,ur2s r<!Pl'�"'­ ent the aeveloj1men t of South Da­ kota by its first generat i o n alone. Irt is nothin g short o f rem� rlrnhic that in t h i s brief -space of time the trackless prairies-rendezvous of the buffal o and the Ind i au - shou1<1 have been transformed i nto an agri­ cultura l p::n adise. To this t a sk t11<, Norsema n has contributed b.is full share. "Bu t he i s found n ot only on the far m . H e i s of a versatile typf'. In I our centers c, f industry a11d bu�i neR.:; the Norseman has found a place . I Ee m ay n ot be as a ggress ive cs hi:; Popula.r oven1ment. for 10 cent u ries will go on and on, and T h e µrlncipJe3 of po p u lar govern - A1�1erica will know t�1at in_ any crisis t qlrn , J urlgo Torrlson pointed out , were that may come the Norwegian race _in l l c ffect In N1 orway _mo re t ha n six ccn- Ame1ica ·.vill st�nd �n tbe side ,?f llb­ t. J 1 1·ies . Lefore. lhe ti me o C t h e Pil gl'i m erty, equa l i ty, J ustice and law. h1 thers. These principles; in • force so C ong i•eflsm a n Kvale, i n speaking on 1:,i1a ,n y cent u ries, made .it easy. for the " Am eri canizing Influences ," stated tha 1Jeople ot :t'\orwny to adopt the written t h e " on e great and active lnfluence,t ,onslitution or 1814, which is similar a n cl perha ps the first to make a ny si za1 p w.,t of t'.1e Unit_ed Slates constitu- ble im p res�lon on the immigrant Nors :• U t,1e s peal:er �foll. s,ad, man, was the spur, mental ancl phys1- 1 -� " W i lli these principles and icleals o f cal, which was given him by the ne�· t;o rnrnrnen t and law cherished i,1 the and larger Jield oC effort and by the ffo,u-ts of people fron} gene ration to t· es tlessness of the America ns who had �enerutlon throu gh ten Noniemen. . centurles, 'is it _preceded 1"im' here." to I.Je wonder� d at that within 80 years ! "vV "But the caliber of a peopre is to ith h is inherent caution, " the a �tet· Lhe!r first small settleme nts in k e r co n tin u e d in referring tn the he �-q1ted by it·s soul qualit ies , its t,.,cse 1 1J )rth western states, the Norwe• spea � ideals, what n , "i n which n o w!S< its N orwegia i :"_-.;tic-s, characte ,: in-. f' .ns ?ave _prod uced 11 governors, sev- b ? progressiv'ism that wmr"bor n feels <:.1).4 d reams about. thi n k s �llW U mted State_s senators, 20 congress - isn ed th t What �iches of so tu :,if� it poss�s�:s. nrn11 • and fo u r Judges of state s u preme a dd b red - inno h is so u l a n d body in his ol home la d-with his d li e r ate, his r.t is in t his respec t tha:l � it� �oioe­ <,--O �rt_s'!_" .J ud�e Torrison said. and sure methocl of pro man has made the greatest con�_:--:-b­ �eding with 1 \\ lule �t 1s to the great credit of slow h h: ,.l t�1e8e offi1.:1als that they have attained 1 is wor an aims, with ,hi high moral ' u tion to So uth Dakota. , _ At tho close of his add;,ess, Congress• �1ese hi�h position s," the speaker con- , "In S o uth D akofa., travel where th1 ue-J, ·•it is someth ing more than man Kvale state_d tl:at. the fa t that you will, you will see his clrnrch. : per­ /J ,at, it is a n expression of the geni u s I th_e Norwegian 1mm1grants were Next to his home h e prizes it above fut· .;overn ment ...nd law, of the race I 1�11tted to bring _with them heir lan­ everything elsB. There i s n o rural � it 111 thelr _churches a_nd church problem where the Nors'3- , {rum which t hey spra ng. 'l'hroug b ;,ua ge, to use t h�se i·epresentativell' a n d th e men th ey �chools, to mee_t their social needs with man lives. And his h ouse oi' wor­ its use, to retain thereby the memories (• elected 1 o th e s t ate legisla tures, a ship i s not th e product of his sur- f fin.ve nd tender sentiments associat ed th e re • the_y h1:1- v e exerted an influen ce on t he plus wealth. 1bg1sla ti ve and admini strativ e b rancl;es with de velope d in them a warm love t· � countr y which "' "The Norseman h a s m ade a con­ �l!.ve them su cl) fo pf the g-o,·ernm ent of these states and tribution to S outh Dakota, and �f tile nation, not only by the Jeglsla- liberties. " t here is room for more people of !Jon t hey hav--' suppor ted, but by their In extencling greetings from Norway, h is type. .A.s yet the1· 0 are hun dreds o,}POHi tion to viciou s legislation pr o• C, J. Ha.mbl'o, member of parliament1 remarked that the centennial celebra� f thousands of acres of undevel­ 1£o,;ed. oped lan cl waiting foT the m a sterr ""l'he standards and the princi ples tion has served to bring to the forefront h re1?­ as such a realization of wha the Norwegians brawn that have g u ided the Norwegian race e of b ra.in an d have achieved in ti country. reseu ts. To its rig htful mast-e rs it 11 yiel d its increase. " ._ ;., _ _ , ,r; .J _ . .• If' . ,e,,pclts r- t1 MN', Trttrnnt WED N :E:.S.., , J H ...1. l G l9;L_ 1- 0 , 1 "b t" on tr1 f • N U • S• , u • i ons O r w a y t0 Ace ' la1 · me, d Speakers at International Meeting Praise Influence of Norse Settlers. National Characteristics Are Held Suited to Needs of America. The contrib u tions of the Norsemen in the field of American governmen t.. polltlcs, Jaw, art, literature and gen­ eral social cult u re were detailed by s group of speakers at the Internatfonal rseeuten­ session of the Nonm -e;;;crl nia l , in the Ht�'lfurome Tuesday. The Manley Mrs. by over nieetlng, p1·esided L. Fosseen, was addressed by Consul T. J. Skellet, Minneapol is; Dr. Fran!, :Nelson. president or Minnesota col!ege: Gunnar B. Bjornso·n , Minneota, Minn. : Contressman 0. J. Kvale, Dr. H. A . Wellows a n d J udge Oscar M. 'l'on-iso11 ot Chicago. , Judge Torrison, irt speaking on the sbbje<.:t of · the "i\'orsemen and the J ,nw," called attention to t he fact that the Norwegians· guiding principle of g,.> vernrnent has rested upon law. I n trad.n g t h e evolution o f thi:< principle. t 1c speake1· referred to the days of the s� ga and to the V iking age. when the . ,,i:,untry was divide<.l into districts or ••ih undreds," eonsisl!ng of 1 00 m ert or tl1e men of 100 farms or homes. FRIDAY • f ind!ustry, integ,ri ty and rev THE NORS•E - AMERICAN ence that m evle the pioneers 0 CENTE NNIAL FEST stand ing :figures wherever th Svein jorn Jo-hnson, associate lived." justice of the North Dakota supreme court, has the f ciUowing to s.ay abo1ut the cente111 nial: "The No,rsec.American centennial next June win serve to dii­ r::iet a,LWntit0,n to the contribu­ l tion the1 Norsemen have made to · Arn�rfoan prog,r ess and civiliza' tion. The N()1rwe1gian imm:i,grant.s who came si.nicie 1825 becaime the pioneer settle>rs of the· g-reat mid­ w.a-st section ,of the Unite<l Statq,1, They o1eared the prim, ev..w1, forest and broke the virgin soil, th roughout liarge areas of the w1h at are now the le-a.ding ag·r.icultural states of the Union. Here they buiJt their homes, raised. thei.r famili:es anp_ · gave to many states leaders of thought anr.i to the nation statesme11 wh.o se na1m es will liv-e in Ame,ri- ] c.em historY\. fl)his e,vent next June wilQ not justiify the timie1 and, energy ex­ pended in maki1ng the p repara­ tion if it becomes merely an oc­ ciasion fo r ostentation and vain­ g;lo1w. Its .rie.aJ mess1age is a cha:l 1eng� to Norsemen of tod ay .and · tomorrow to exe1m p,l ify in cha1racter' and ooniduct the traits of Bottine ;:-u, T" �Washburn I FRIDAY _ - · 6 .:: • coMMUNI�TIONm I About Norway's Hundredth . nniversary Celebra' fon 1 \ I It is just as imprtant for a small 1 people to celebrate annivenaries as 1 for a small merchant to advertise. Norway is a small country. Its i mmi­ grants here are few comparatively. But their achievement in reaching these shores centuries before Colum­ bus ; their undaunted courage i n clear­ ing forests and draining lowlands in the middle western states, making these the most prosperou 3 in the Union, is certainly worth calling at­ tention t with a celebration. This celebration also caUs attention 'to the small country whence came this sturdy people, whose scientists, writ­ ers, and discoverers are numbered among the foremost in all the world. -Rev. I. G. Monson. * * * The New W orld achievements and attainments of the No1,3emen is a matter of great pride to every Ameri­ can with Norse blood in his veins. The j share that people of Norwegian immi- 1 6Tation and extraction have had in the making of America in the last hundred years is simply an indication of what it may be in the future and at thi stime demands that we tarry a moment and take stock. It is fitting that the great Norse-Ame1·ican re- • union in 1925 be an epoch-making • evtne in the history of this nation. Let us malre-Nw�e"'\"ent of fhe era and let our posterity reckon time from this memorable occa,,ion.-G. N. Liv­ dahl. Jefff'rs, Minn • THL1..,so z: _ * J. 1.2., ife>RSE-AMERICAN CENTENNIA :.� Centennial -'I ii e Norse:American J celebration - af the · state fair grounds next month will be one of the biggest events the Twin Cities have ever seen. Prominent men from this country and Europe will be in atte{idance. The President of the United State and the· Secretary of State of th United States will be present. of the highest rank in public life Norway will come and other cou tries will also contribute to the nu ber of distinguished guests. There are those who do not app e­ ciate the significance of this celebra­ tion and some even look upon it as a gathering of ·"foreigners. " Nothing can be fartlier from the facts. The event that is being celebrated is the coming of the first shipload of Norwegians to America, · just one hundred years ago, The people of Norse decent i n this country are making this occasion to rejoice over the fact that their fore­ fathers left the old country a hundred years ago and came to America. It is a patriotic celebration, from an American standpoint, for the event commemorated is the coming of the people of the nationality named to this country. It . is to praise the foresight of these hardy pioneers and to rejoice over the g·ood fortune that brought them to these shores that this cele­ bration is being had. No race is more American in spirit than the Norse race, Liberty • and freedom have always been household words with them and they understand and app.ceciate American aims and ideals to an extent not surpassed by any othe;· people. That is why they celebrate with HO m uch enthusiasm the event that brought their people to these shores a hundred years ago. �merica has done much for the Norse people, but they, too, hav:e done something fo't' America. As a class, they have contributed to the. building up of the country and they have been among the foremost to defend it Tu its hour of need. America has always welcomed the people of the Nordic race and it is to register that welcome that the Pre­ sident of the United States will come tti �his celebratio n and participa te in it as one_ of the speakers. �he Norsemen of America propose to show to the world next month that they are glad they "came" over and that their adopted country holds a place in their he.': a1:,:·t�iiJlillioo•.;;w�.!f..V. will be firs nJr Bjornson. l· 1: ��# �•�1,,,,,,.,.,,,,,,,.,,,,,, THE NORSE CENTENNIAL BY .FREDERICK P. LATIMER. j ,,,,,,,••#######.############•#� President Coolidge has gone to Minnesota for the purpose of tal-:­ ing part in a grand celebration com­ memorating the 1 0 0th anniversary of the first Norse immigration to the United States. The statistics showing exactly how many Nor­ wegians have come to this country since then, ancl how many have been born here of Norse parentage, are not at hand, but the total can· not come far from at least equall1ng the number of Norwegians who re­ main in Norway. If this sum had i been many times multiplied, Amer­ ica would have good cause for con­ gratulation. Once upon a time a visitor from the east was stopping at a hotel tn St. Paul. He noticed at ·the en­ trance of the diningroom a young lady who had charge of the coats and wraps. She was not only a very refined-appearing young lady, but also . very b<!awtltul, having a wealth of shln!ng golden hair, such as one reads of in fairy tales, and i-1 T TR WTR E CROSS �A . a complexion that would have been 1925. 14, JUNE AY, SUND deeply admired even in Maryland where the complexions of young By A. M. BRA YTON lad l es is oft1mtlmes something wonddressed der ful. Allcl , beyond that, her exRESIDENT COOL ID were pressl on was engaging, kindly and tors c Ameri cans whose pleasant to a high degree, indeed. Nors�en at St. Paul. The high-not e The traveler advanced to inquire whicli"'1'le sodfiueu wit.. that the Norse race .had most readily fused in the ostensibly regarding the usual time melting pot, and that the t remen-_ 1vhe n spring opens in Minnesota, or dous influen ce which the Norse straln something casual-like of that sort, b,as· had throug hout the middle weSt hut in reality both· to satisfy curi­ ht _ the politics of the countr y had prsity as to the book which seem e d b·een good. "The countr y is safe with to be absorbing much of the young you," said the presiden t.. Wisconsin is included m the belt lady's time and as to what kind of to which the Scandinavians have con- a personality lay behind so much tribut ed the qualifications that have excellence of exterior. The book made them a great peo ple. We note, was an advanced treatise on Bible among other things, that of all races history and the personality would the Scandin avians a,veraged the most have gt·aced any cultivated company apt in scholar ship. One seldom sees in the United States. a "dumb -bell" among students of This same traveler can distinctly Norse ancestry in our public schools. Their coming in numbers dates back recall a trying but impressive ex­ to 1 8 2 5 , only one hundred y_ears ago , pei:ience in youth when, although and as far back as 1 8 5 0 , h i story re- quite a husky boy of 16, and a pretty : cords, Wiscon sin had some 4 0 , 0 0 0 good ,;wrassler," straying into his Norweg ians who had settled here. grandmother's kitchen, he was The centenary of Cleng Peerso n's seized by a huskier Norwegian girl la1;1ding was a signific ant e yE;nt in who, _ sp . te of all honorable e ffo rt s m 1 that one found in it recogn1t1on of tne,..qual ities that made the Scan- ito the contrary on his l)art, lugged th� him to the sink and washed his face dinavians at home grea!, an� _ makes him a great American c11;,,jjl!lffi. Ignominiously with a roug,h cloth and water from the dishpan. Another Norwegian lass, at about that era in jiis history, taught him a part of the Norse I.;;i,nguage which he still remembers to the extent of a fe,'£. words, at any rate, three of which were, "Yog. alskar dig (with a couple of little clots over the first "a" ) , and one which sounded sonrn- l P �thing like "chyss." She was a '\IE!'Y and afterward map.{e d a go * * e JJ,.� traveler (who was us, but was a bit reticent to admit it, o n account of the dish· water episode) hacl the good fortune to know yet an additional Norwe• gian lady, who makes pies, salad�, muffins, short cakes, ice creams, and everything else good to eat, to amazing excellence; beats us un­ mercifully at "Russian bank," to vi!!lit at whose house is to acquire congratulations toward her husba n d a n d w h o is a constant source o f de­ light to all, whether at church so· ciables, or picnics, o r on a trip to Coney Island, o r the theater, or in a political meeting or wherever, and even is an ardent trout-fisherass with or without boots. And we have known Norwegian II men, lots of them, fine wholesom3 souls, faithful in friendships and In ' their work. So when we were in Minnesota ' we noticed the people of Norse / stock out there with especial inter­ est an d have nothing to say about I , them except praise. There are a lot of them, too. Min­ nesota i n 1 9 1 0 had a population of 2 , 2 4 6 , 7 6 1 . They are not all Nors<?, but the greater proportion are, and there are a grea-t many commun!· ties 'in Minnesota almost entirely .,o. And there are thousands of folk ,,f Norwegian descent in Wisconsin, now the greatest dairying state in the uni on, in the Dakotas, and Iowa, so that when these are all added to­ gether, with the thousands mors scattered through the other states, and it is remembered that Norwa.y 1 In 1 9 1 0 had on her 1 2 4 , 0 0 0 square miles of territory, only 2 , 4 5 9 , 0 0 0 I people, it becomes evident that 1 there must be about as much ''Norseness" now in the United ' States as anywhere on earth. f * * * Mr. Cool idge may be partly Norse, ethnologically as well in tempera­ tn en t, he exhibiting taciturnity, the tl.rmness of a rock and common sense, thrift and soberness, inher­ ited, to same extent, we doubt not from admixture of blood of the Northmen which Britain shares with 1 Norway in the story of the ages. Close ki'nship there is between the Norse and the Anglo -Saxon. Emi­ gration from Norway, affecting through England, America, began hundreds of years before 1 8 2 5. 1 One might naturally suppo,se that the Pacific northwest would be the portion of our country most likely to attract, by this time, settlement from Norway, the climatic condl·· tions are i,o much alike. But by strange slant of destiny a sea-faring folk have moved into the heart of a continent and occupy a terri tory that was first claimed in the wil­ derness by France. French Jesuits were in St. Paul long, Jong before the grandparents of the young lady with the golden hair an d book of Bible history. I I CHICAGO Il.L NEWS f!ATlJR,PA-Y. JUNE 131 1926. 13fi GRAHAM. TA Y£0R r.AMERICA'S NOR W,EGIAN FELLO W CITIZENS. The "hyphen," link. or whatever el l!le three pa ssengers proceeded to seltle you may call the bond between Noi·way in that state. Nine years later, in 1 8 34, and America is as close as it i s long. Klen g Peerson Jed more ot his fellow When measured by the years or the countrymen to found a colony on the miles which it spans it is al! long al!! Fox river in Illinois and latE>r to colo­ the history o:I' America. But when nize the northwest aide o! Chicai;;o. Thus measured by neighborhoods, or b l' 1 this pathfinder pioneered the way for neighboring states where families from thousands of Norse immigrants to settle Norway intermingle with people from ' the great northwest. T he centenniaJ celel:>ration of the ar­ America's other fatherlands, the tie shortens, so that all alike are only rival o! the first group or Norwegian Americans. settlers in 1 825 was staged this. week And yet neither Norway nor America in M inne apolis, the city at the center can atford to lose sight of o r cease to of America's population of Norwegian cherish the far-apart entls of the his- descent. But the story of its migration torio line connecting them acroes the- westward and o! its achievements i n seas and the centuries. T he h i&ory of t he · n orthwestern states cannot b e · told neither land can be written withou t in - without retellinit :he We of Chlcago'e terweaving that of the other. The nar- Scandinavian northwest side. Here, on rowest "100 p er cent American " surely the w e!lt bank o f the Chicago river, would not carry hl s hatred o:I' t he hy- these sturdy settlers struck root. St ead­ phen !lo far as to cut oft the "old Uy have they spread westward, pressing coui,try" end of this on e be !o i:e it the city llmlts across the prairie. As reaches to Norway's broad eeaf arers. t hey did so, and scattered still more It that "farthest north" end of Ameri- widnly, they left the streets they can history ceased to be cherished the opened the houses they bullt and some story of America's dliscovery would be ot the • great chm·ches they reared. -to lost and with it 5 0 0 Eea.r S of the old be occupied by the Italian and Polish immigrants who followed in their wake. world's quest o! our new continent. Under the stars and strlpM Norway's .JI, .JI, FIVE CENTURIES AHEAD 01!' COLUl'£BU8. red and blue national colors flew acres■ ery street on the 11th of May ev It was fully five centuries be.tore Christopher Columbus set ,15ail from the when every Joya.I descendant c elebrated Italian coast that Skfpper Leif Erickso n Norway's "Independence day." Here on sailed due west from Norway until he Peoria street tor torty-two years the landed o n what so long continued to great Norwegian-American, or Amari• be "a coast of illusion' ' to the old world's can-Norwegian, newspaper. Skandina• la ndsmen . Modern research no more ven, has been bindir,g together and to surely .credits Leif Erickson with the America. its readers in and about Chi• discove ry of Americ a than it claims ca.go and massed still more closely in 'l'horfin . Karlsefni and his fellow Norse­ Wisconsin, Minnesota, the Dakotas and man voyagers with being the first Eu­ Montana. John Anders.on, its publisher, ropean oolonists on the .American con• becami Chicago's pioneer printer. From his press The Dally News was first is• tinent. eue•· , when Victor F. Lawson lett the It took a, long while for the Norwe­ gian settlers to come, but there is n o Skandinaven staff to join MelvUle E. missin g !Ink in t h e evolut ion o f either Stone i n publishing The Dally New s. From th.is same press have issued people. Norwegian "sagas" kept the whole libraries of historical, religious western horizo n open to the• i!light of and biographical volumes. in the Scan­ imagination and to the voyage ol ad­ dinavian languages, and :tob printing venture in t heir storie s of the heroic ers i n German, Polish, Bohemian . Dutch, achievements of the boldest marin n Italian, French, Spanish and a.!most who ever dared the deep. When Edwi line­ every other language used !n America, Mark ham unde rtook t o trace the ican The last week's daily edition of Skand i• age of Lincoln-the greatest. Amer and naveu incl uded in its sixty pages pic­ I �back to "the color of the groun d thln� s" 'ture,s of the partici pants in the centen• the tang and odor o:1' the primal n ni.i,l celebration, moot prominent of v1 dina 1n him; h e hark ei;i back to Scan begi:3-n­ which was that o:I' Pr,!?sident Coolidge, ar, myth olog y to find his forbe "Lincoln, }nse.rted between America's "My Coun• ning his imm ortal tribute to with tl'l.eae tr:;·, 'Tia of Thee" and Norway's "Der the M a n of the Peop le," Ligger et Land."' lines: _wind jl, "Whe n the Norn Mother eaw i~ C1IICAGO'S COMING FOLKFEST. a.s it hurried on. Gre!��fnl!' and da.rke n!nl!' The award o:I' three prizes ottered s _and c&DU! down She [eft the Rea.even o! Heroe, by Skandinaven for the best essa.Y!! on the m11rhty need. To make a man to meet of on road­ th& achievements or Norwegians i n co�m the cla:v tried the took She l bea.t o! ea.rth. Chv warm yet with theaa-:enla otrain o! prophecy. America was annollJ'lced, a s wa:.s Ghl· Dashed throUlrh it all of mortal cago's celebration of the centennial to touch with Tempered the h"a.o 2/1. Its main fea.­ te eeriou.s be held June 27 and the with er, la.Ui'ht Then ��ed a. tures wiil be a great "fol.kf�st" on the etulf." Municipal pier and a banquet in honor of. the Rt. Rev. Bishop Lunde, officially SETTLERS FOR A CEN'ftl'.RY. rep.ril!enting the Norwegian Lutheran ower church at these centennial occasions. J t was 215 years art.er the May n on ettlers landed the New England e I It is significant that President Coo­ the arson rs L , lldge was ml!>ved by this centennial of Plymouth rock. that La N orwegian skipper, steered his litt l e Norwegian immigration to emphMize '1:n Restoration ) ( Restaurationen his commemorative address "the social sloop into Ne w York harbor, whence his fifty - backgrounds of our country." In doing .,. �so . he said what he knew t o be as true of their family life and Industry as It is or any other element of the Amerlca.ll people, that: "Religious liberty, educational and economic opportunity, constitutional rights, the integrity of the law, do not euianate from the government. Their abld1ng place is w.lth the people. They come from the consecration o! the fathers, the love o:t' the mothers and the devotion of the children. They are the product of that ho nest, earnest and tireless e:t'fort that goes Into the rearing of the fainily altar and the making ot the home." That there should be no doubt of his reference to the people he addressed, the, pL'esident added: "When I look upon you and realize what y ou are a.n.d �hat you have. done, I know that in your bands our country is secure. You have laid up your treasure in ''IVhat America represents and there w!ll your h eart be also.,_ You have given your pledge to the land 'of. the free, and the pledge of the 1�orwegian people has never yet gone u nredeeni ed." And 1110 say we all who have lived and worf.,<id with our Norweglan neigh­ bors and fellow citizei;;s� •oruC,gJ<:.ag& El many a'nii.rd struggle ere me goaT was ·twent years ago, ft can now be said reached. They held out manfully and than an even dozen Norwegian-Amer­ the victory was won. The result of} icans have bee n governors of states, their labors have been so magniflcent five of whom are present incumbents. - Commenting on the latter fact, a Mln­ as to surpass their fondest exp tions. neapolls periodical In a post-election The home, the farm, the church,£ re issue last fall stated that the chief mag­ t he three great assets on iwltioh _! y lstrates within the entire northern _do­ have concentrated. The Norwegia main of our country, from Lake Mich­ American press, as well as church peri igan westward beyond the rockies would odicals, have received 11 large share of be men of Norse stock. The states that , t heil' attention, and from these sources have Norwegian-American governors at t hey have drawn lessons of usefulnes s present are "\I\Tisconsln, Minnesota, beyond our power to estimatE>. North and South Dakota, and Montana. 1 At various times books have been Said states have a combined area three 1 published which in their sum total may times as large as that of the Kingdom be characterized as the so.ga of the of Norway. ,,.. Norwegian-A merican home, of settle, I A like increase in the number ot or­ ments fbl'med, and of prairies and wil- flee-holders of Norwegian descent has dernesses as these were being subdued. been witn es.s ed in other fields, from , B_ooks have also accumulated on the Co ngress down to the many national, history of the church and the press, state, county and township offices. sacred and secular. But. all has not And thus the Norwegian-Amer ican.s been recor�ed ; nor can it be ; the quint- have made use of the opportunti!es here essence of It can never be put on paper. offered for advancement ln the various Altog�ther, the W?rk of the Norwegian- fields, in art, in science , In bus!:ieSs, Americans coi:stitutcs a harmonious in religious training for the young, in Whole, has l astmg worth, and must be charities, in the spread of the gospel at _ rat�d as an integral part of the achieve- home and in foreign lands. Volumes ment.s_ o� the American people as such. would have to be written to show some 1 S�tls�ics are, ll:S a rule, not favored what fully the results which have been . :reading , nor will It do to crowd r ,'tchieved in the various fields Into which . m�ny . statistics into a presentation of t.hcv have entered. this kmd. One may, however, be per mitted to call attention to the fact that during the last hundred years, or since Immigration from Norway assumed large dimensions, about a million Nor­ wegians have left their ' native land to go to America. There are today about 2, 5 0 0 , 000 people here with Minneap1"1is, Minn . ournal Norwegian blood in their In other SUNlJA Y, �vIA '.l'.·._.=3:.c:lc,,,...;"':..:9:.:2::.,5c..____� words, there are about asveins. many people f N orwegian stock In this country as Recounting Achievements of �there are Norwegians in Norwar. "Nor­ the Norwegians in America rona folket vil fare." Freely rendered, 'l'o the :Editor of The Journal: • this means that the Norwegians have , vVe are nearing t11e centegpJaJ CINA- 1 a migratory b_ent. Thi�, together with SIOUX cmry If'\W A TRm bration of Norwegia:rr"immigration to a sense of wise selection, has causeJ W5 rlNT<�S' r 1, l lJ,'. fJJ 10, 1925, such large numbers o! them to come -:,o . . J America . It will be of iP";lrest to note America. C E N T E N N IAL some of the results whic::h have been It is significant that when "RestauraIOUX C {11'3 is just on the tionen," on the 4th of july, 1 825, left achieved during these hundred years. fringe or'. the great North· It surprises me • however • th at an ap - �orway for America, it was whole fam 1l!es tl1at sta rted out, men, and western Em ire which owes so peal has been made for a centennial children. The purpose waswomen plainly to jubilee, it being a fact that it is now s ettle permanently i n the Ian<;! they much to Norse foresight, courage exactly 925 years since the NorseMan, set out for. Late,, thousands and and industry. Aside from the m�u:; hundreds of thousands followed. Con­ Leif Erikson, found his way to our tin ued intercou rse between the two people of qi.at race . in this citY shores. Furthermore, the first whites countries had a great deal to do with and in the surrounding territory, who settled permanently in the presen t bringing this about. there are othe1· thousands who United States were li!cewise of NorThe United States still owns 186,wegian stock.. 6 04,733 acres of Janp altogether un- cheerfully join with them in recog­ The first and most significant work touched and untilled. 'l'hese stagger­ nizing the significance of the Of the Norweg'ian s in America, in a ing figures do not include forest lands Centennial, as celebrated in purely material way, has consisted in Indian reservations, or other publi� Norse clearing and permanently settling la rge l ands. N or Is Alaska included. If it a program jointly arranged b y areas of land, ·especially in the middle w ere, i t would mean a;i: aclditional 33 0,­ Minneapolis and St. Paul. west. No other country has given as 000 , 000 acres of unu�d public domain. In looking now u pon the rich large a percentage of its pop ula tion to 'l' here I s sti ll a rople .lfpportunity, there­ farms, splendid towns and bus• America as Norway ; it also leads i n the may even ifi our n umber of its people who have come day, in some degree at least, be termed tling cities of the northwest, it · is I here and hav e taken u p farming or pioneer life, than which there is no life not easy· for those who enjoy the . have worked on farms. quite so charming. benefits to visualize the discourage- 1 By far the largest number of NorweIt is not in the agricultui·al line alone �:an -Am�ricans, over eighty per cent, however, that Norwegian-American� ments and hardships which con­ have their homes in Minnesota, North have made marked progress. Nor did and South Dakota, Iowa, Illinoi:;; and they come here to isolate themselves, fronted the pioneers. It was not ob• Wisconsin. About 5 0 ,0 0 0 of Minnesota's but to enter as a vital force into a a soft job to overcome the 176,000 farms are owned by Norwegian- greater unity. Little by J!ttle, hundreds stacles and transform the potential Americans. and thousands of public offices have The Norwegian -Americans have, how- been entrusted to Norwegian-Aroeri­ resources into the finished prodever, as a rule, never become so at- cans. If we, for instance, scan the nets. tached to the soil as to lose interest in pages of Martin Ulvestad's great worl{, The hardy men and women of higher things. They have held in high , "The Norsemen in America, Their His­ esteem the he1·itage they took with them tory and Record," we J:ind that in 190 0 the northland, who had developed from the home-land. The pioneer was as many as 593 Norwegians functione(l the iron spirit through centuries wont to say : Pray and work. In song, as postmasters in the United States. of courageous endeavor, took over !foster the spirit of freedom and of Furthermore, 94 were in our legisla­ gladness. Be grateful for all the good tures, 31 were mayors of larger cities, the neglected opportunities in the I and oarr.led them • things you here enjoy from day to day . 24 were judges, one governor a_nd one northwest Be truthful, Joyal, brave, a good citi- U. S. senator. In addition there were through more successfully than I zen, a kindly neighbor. Let us at all hundreds of teachers in the public t imes do our utmost to clear ancl settle schools, 27 county superintendents, etc. even they could have dreamed 100 1 this glorious land. we will change im - Froi:n 1847 t? 19 0 5 at least . 3, 044 Nor­ years ago. These pioneers wrought mense prairies to fertile fields, the wil- wegian-Americans held public office well for their American descend· dernesses to splendid ga rden spots. I n . The above figures have considerably t his manner we shall also sh ed a ha lo mcreased of late. During the last ants in that great task, but they about old Norway, the la nd we icft be - twenty years there has been a rise in wrought even more for the na­ the number of office holders who are tion both in the in.attar of adding hind. The young listened to t he older ones Norwegian-Americans, r�lat!vely great­ and followed in their· steps. '.rhere was er than within any other group of our to material resources and in adding I citizenry. As against one governor to a sterling citizenship. y I S I \ - �OrlP of t hf' United H l a ( e;; Renal Ot'H from Sou t h Da knta . Professor Gisle Bothne said in the course of his address at the opening of the Norse-American cen­ tennLal : Tens of th'ousands of the pres­ ent generation will have vlsual11:ed the life of the early Norse pioneers, how they labored and sacrificed that we might gain wisdom, happiness and material comfort, and lead such lives that Norway should .not be a,shamed of us and America should not re­ gret that she had Invited us to her shores. They have llved just such llves. Norway is justly proud of the character of its representation in the ranks of American citizenship and the well -wishers of our own ] nation are. of one accord in ac­ claim1ng the honorable and con­ structive services of the Norwegian immigrants• and of their descend· ants. Their industrial conquest or the northwest ever was in pur­ suance of the spirit of the Golden Rule. They sought merely to en• joy the opportunities and prlvilego::i 1 confronting them and gave friendly aid and comfort to others en· gaged 1n the same struggle. They aang at their work and inspired others with hope. They observed the general principles of morality and the laws of the land. People of all origins who inhabit this section. and who believe 1t wlll continue to be the best in the world, never hesitate to admit and proclaim that the men and women of the Norse strain broke the trails and did more than their full part, subsequently, in developing anrl 11uata.lning the hi&h,er attributes or citlzenahiP. Two of l h e 1 11·E>sE>nt C 'opg-1·ess111 en fl'om H ! 1 1 1 l 11 fh1 lrnt : t , ( '. A. Ch1•J,il,upher11on of Sioux l<'a l l;;, a na \\' i l i a m \\' i l ­ l i amso 1 1 of (k:1c·o11 1n . n , · e o[ t h e Ra me blood. There lrn ve hePn [li ree sec· r e t ,;r. ies of slate. 0. f Unsrucl , 1'h o rn a s 'rl 10 rson a n t1 0. ( ' . !11.'t'g, who n 1·e of t he F:a rnP dPBC'en t a n d 1 wo R i a le t 1·ea,;urP1·i-; < 1 E>orge (L .l ohnRo n a n<l G us H. Helger· son. There ha v,, beer! t wo sl fl l e ;; 1 1 pe1·­ i n l endPn l H of p u lJl iC' i nstruc-t i o n , 1 I a n ::; Ust n 1 tl a nd c · . < : . La \\TPnC'e. t h e lat l ei-. 1 1Ow p1'er;i1lent or t h e st a l e normn l school u.l Rpring·fieltl, who l ra<'e t h eir descent l o t h e land of t he Vikings. 1 N'orweg·ians in South Dak o t a a l so• j have ga ined fame in m u slC'a! l i n es. I n , 1 he s t H t e are a n u m l ie.1· of singing- sn- j cic-1 ies ma.cie up or N'orwegin n,,, o n e 1 of t h e most pro m inent of t h ese being 1 1 1° M i nnehaha :\ f a n,lsl,01·, uf >'l!o u x Falls, wh ich is com posed of busl nrs:s men of Norwegia n cles<·ent. ThP Nor wegian 8ingerR' A Rsoei11 tlo n of AmE>rl · c ·ll , whi<'h w i l l lw well reJJresentf'd a l I the ::-Jol'Se C'e nte n n ial in t h e Twin C i t ie� was ho1·n in Rou t h Da kota , it h n v i ng , lwen orga nized jn 8 io u x li'allR in 1 8 9 1 1 n rl i 1 1 <'O1·pontted unde1· t he laws o f So u t h Da kota. Si nc-e that t ime, wil h he except ion of 1 9 1 R, when t h e ·wol'ld wa 1· J)l'eventPd. singing- fe8ti vals hnv� heen h elrl even· f wo years hy t h is gre1it national singing· organ izalio ri. The C'horus at t h e f PHt ival often h a s c-on• siRterl or from 1 ,000 to 1 , 5()0 Yo ices, pro vicled ma jest i c mu sic. 1'wo f 'nng1·essme11 .\re Non,o 1\ . 1'he n r t exhibits or work clone hy ·u l ptors and p a i n t ers of Norwegian 1 )it-l h 01· rlescent a re Px pected t o he o n e ) f tlte gTea l n t t rac• iont, of the CPn1en­ '1in l nl t he ::'l l in n Psota Sta l e Fn ir ,,;rou nrl><. A m o n g- t he sC'u l pt u re exhi • 1 , i ( s w i l l be Rpecimens of work by G U­ ',e1·t H.isvoicl . \\' ho ,'wa s 1·eared in Rou t h Dn kotn. . He wns rn iHed o n n farm sou t h o f Bal t ic-. in t he region nort h of Rioux Palls, n ncl has n u merous relat ives in hB Ralt iC' comm u n i t y . RiRvold has ·lsen · to fam e in his worlt a nd the Nor-­ \\'egia ns of Rou t h Da k o t a ,ire;, Vf'l'Y nro u rl of h i m a nd his a c h i e vements. n e •·.e<'eived o n one OC'C'fl.Sion a pl'ize o f $ 1 0 , 000 ro,· one piece of work . A n int eresting sto1·�· rn told by Not· · \\'egi a n fl of t h e cliRl riC't i n which he was rc;,ai·ecl -as t o the manner in which he fou nd his t a le n t . A s a, hoy in the rl isl l'i<'t school his teRc-her fo u n d h i m one. d a y benrl ing o v €' r h i s d e s k engageci ' n doing· !'Som eth i n g- ot her t ha n h i A leR• ,on . Rhf' sile n t l y w a l k e<1 . helirrnl h i m fn his h a n d s w e r E> a ·pier·<> of woorl a nd 1 jaC'k - k n i fe. Bu.t it was. more t han a pi€'ce of wood. He had ·c-a rved n. head ,if T'1·esi,l ent l\f r K ! nJe�· w h ir h was a ·c>ma rka})le pieC'e of .work. The teaC'her t h en wen t t o t h e boy's pare n l i; anrl 1 ol rl t hem that it would ' a k e a. 1rrea (P1· o n e t han her tn direct his talents i n the proper rlirecion. Riswolfl lat et' attributed hiR sta r t to his tea c h ­ er's in terest, a n d though h e ·had many ,eve,•f> obstacles t o faC'e o n acco unt of ' t i:; paren t 's l i l r·k of fina·ncjaJ mea.ns for tn ed uea t io n . lie. with t he perRistenc-c> nf thoRe other 1\"orwegians who had • u1·11Pcl thf' 1wn irie9 of Rou t h Dakota l'rom a. w ilderneAs into a ri<'h fa rm!ng <liRl l'id , fou nd rneanR o f developing his ' a.lent until he t oo k hi8 place as one or, \ lie leading sculpt.ors o( t h e United Sta­ LeR. The Xo,·wegian,: of Routh Dakota al• so h a v e d eveloped several i n ventors, among ! h em bei ng J ver Fanebm,t of :-\ioux FallR. Even Amdal of C'anton nnd W il l ia m .T. Nelson of B1·andon. They will 1 >e represenl etl by models of t hell- .I i n venlio �'1.t t hA l 'entennial exp0sit ion on l lw :\l i n r,Alit 2 F • r 1 ncls. Art T s Not Negle<'t.ecl 1 ,. s 5, i)2$ EGIANS HAVE HAVE HAD GREAT PART IN BUILDING SOUTH DAKOTA WEALTH Leaders Have Come In This State From Pioneers Settlers i Who Com �Early Day. h<"Fn t lrn t �v ha o t a l,p·n an i m por t a n t pa 1·t 1n <lemnnst ra t- I Ing t hat Sou t h Dalrn t a was a fn rmin A I st(l t l'. 'l'ht>se t ho u sancls of earl� Nor­ wegia ns ,vit hstoocl all sor l i-; of 1wivatiun and d isc-ouragemE>n t H . h11t th ey wpre out (o w ln-and w i n t hey clic1. Norwegians pla:v ec l a lan�e p1u·t i n t h e developmen t o r sou t h L >n ko t , 1 i n t o one o f t he richest ng1·icult u nl l s t : i t f's of , ('hihlren of Settlers Profit t he Union. 'I'enfl or thousa nds 'of t he;.;e Tntlav som e o f t h e fi nest farm homes ho 1·dy pPoplf' c-ame to t h e pl'airies o f South Da ltot11 when l he C'O u n t ry \\'fl S re I n f'.outl, Uak o 1 a. lll'(' 01\'llP(l ! ,�• t h ese garderl as a 1 1a 1·t c,f t h e G rea t 1\ 111erica n y,Joneer l\'orwe1?;ia1rn ancl their hescen­ DeRert, a nd w h e n m a ny helievecl it nev­ clants n re canying on their share oC the er wou ld hN•ome a n agriPult u 1·a l re­ work of inc-rea sing t h e c1·o p p1·ocluC'l ion Large gio n , and went to work with a will lo of Rout h Da kota E>ach year. prove t hat h a rd work and persistance n umberR or " t h e ea dy Xorwegia n Ret• would eventua l l y win t he C'Otmtry fo1 1 l ers in Rou t h Da l<:ot n h a v e long flin<'e paRRNl to t heir final 1-ewanl. b u t t h ey t h e Reekers of n ew homes. The early � orweg·ian set llers were h a Ye left a herita ge w h ich is bei ng- en- , exaC'tly o f t h e rig• ht type of peopl<' to u n .i oyerl by their children a n d t he descen• dP!'tak e t h is g-?i;an t ic tnsl,, for t lielr per- cla n t s oC ol h e,· nal i0na l i l i es. 1,istenC'e u nd-,r ad ver�e conclit innR is :\fanv men of N o rse rlPscen t have 11ro verl'fial. ht t he f>/u·ly days t hPrn ef­ Jwlcl 1)�1,lic- offic-e i n Rou t h DH lrnt a . In fnr t A <litl not se<'m to C'O U n t much in a 1 he )•el n t i vel�' l ,rieC ,space of R t n t ehoocl sl 1w;le y<'a l'. h u t �-Ni r hy yea r l he1·e wa.s 1 hP re hri ve hPPn forn· .� ,wernorR or Nor­ a st Pally imp1·ovPmPn t in C'O ndit onR. a n d \\'flg-ia n nnrent agfl-A ndre,v R. J... ee, a f r ,., r Y Nll'R of effort th ey were rpwa rd­ ( 'hn r l PS X. 1 T e1Teicl . PetE>r N'orhP<•k a n d erl 1,y • t Ile knowll'clg-l' t h a t 1 he fi,, �t hrul < · m I (; u nr1erso n . l 'Pt f'l' NorheC'k now iH 1 �l �es Thank-s N.W. 1/' l N�@ A niumm 101 _. Suppori M Dry Law In r�nition or t he efC01·t of 50 men and w»'11en of Norwegian lin ca.ge to support t he government in the en­ forcement of the prohlhition law, R. A. Haynes. federal prohlb-j tion com­ missioner. has sent a. comm·u nication to J . .J. Skordalsvold, of Mi nneapolis, yoi.cing his n.ppreciation. Mr. Slrnr<lalsvold was chairman of t h e r€'so lution comm itt"'e at the last national rally of prohibit i on workers al Bethany Norwegian Luthe ran church, June 10. "Much of Urn success or enfo rce­ ment is clue to the faot t hat we have the ba�k-j n g of upstanding citizen1,," Mr. Haynes wrotP. . He thanked t he f-0 men a nd women who havC' been aid­ ing· proh ibition ag·ents in .Mi11U/'!SOta, and who have been act ive in an t i -sa­ loon campaigns for 40 years. Auburn, Nebr., Republican fHURSDi\¥.. JUNE 1 1. 192.S T FORlEGIEK • HAS MADE GOOD Call\e From A-1l.ross the Waten With a- Caplt.al of ' $So. ATTE�DED NIGHT SCHOOL TO LEARN ENGLISH LANGUAGE Is Now at the Head of the Biggest Co­ operative Creamery In the StateA Lesson for . Young Men. Superior, June 10.-Scandinaviam other than Norwegians in the middlf west are gathering a record of thei • achievements in America in order no to be left in the shade by the Norwe� ian Centennial celebration in Min neap � 6 o O:rn oi the outstanding monument in the United States to Danish er'.erg; and business ability is the Farmer Union Creamery Company of this cit) one of the largest co-operative cream eries in the world, handling mill ion of pounds of butter every year. Tb company was organized by James ( J\orgaard who arrived in this countr eleven years ago without capital an unabl� to speak a ,·. ord of En gfo:,! Americanized Scandinavians of ever race may point to his record as ev dence of tfi.e values these national itf€ bring to �ihzenship. Mr. Norgaard arrived in New Yor ::tll 1914 with capital consi�ting, to Uf 1ifs own words, of "a tooth brusl thirty-five dollars, a lot of ambitio and energy, but not a word of EnE lish." He went at once to a sma Danish settlement in Wisconsin, bu .f inding that he could not study Eng lish there he took a job in a creamer at Green Bay, Wis., at ten dollars month and board and went to nigh school to learn English. In less th:p a year, be knew the language wel enough to go into the University o Wisconsin, at Madison, for a course ii dairying. After receiving his diploma a year later, he went to Michigan ai a buttermaker at seventy-five dollart a month. In 1917 Mr. Nogaard went into the army. He was exempted and app<· int­ e<l insttuct<fl' m t.airing ac the u'ni\"e sity of Wisconsin. In March of 1918 be was called to Riverton, Neb., 1o be The plan1 manager of a creamery. was destroyed by fire soon after and Mr. Nogaard was again called to war service as a purchaser and inspector of butti1r for the U. S. Navy. He used his leisure time to take a course in traffic management from LaSalle Ex­ tension University. In May 1919 he organized the Farmers Union Cream­ ery Company. Mr. Nogaard wanted furthe:r study in American businesf methods so be took a course in Busi· ness Administration from LaSalle Ex­ tension University. He places a high value on his extension study. "I attribute most of my success to the business courses I took from La­ Salle," he says. "The knowledge and inspiration · received in my courses of study were indispensable to me." At present Mr. Nogaard is manager of the Farmers Union Creamery Com­ pany, president of an ice company, president of tbe largest condensary in the state of Nebraska, vice presi­ dent of the Superior Grain Exchange, and director of the Superior Building and Loan Company. Here is a man who, landing in America almost penniless and unable to speak word of the language made himself in . eleven years a leading citizen. G�aduate of a great university and ini,tructor in one of its depart­ ments of husbandry, he bent his mind to acquiring knowledge of higher busi­ ness by two horrie study courses from the leading e::densfon university. With­ out making· any claims for Mr . • Nor­ gaard, o�i1er ' than his record, he is mention�d as Ii sample of what a Dane can do. Danish and Swedish societies are checl-1ing over their records of suc­ cess, in view of the national interest in the Norwegian celebration. a �1\lfinnea , r.!is, 'l\ll:inn . S tar S:A,TU�DA'i, MA.'f �. 1925 N. Y. Recognizes Norse Centennial Bro;;klyn Park Named in Honor of Leiv Eir­ icksson I his address in Minnesota 911 June 8, and all her pioneer spiritwe.1 prophets who • were' divin..fil� c.,ul'Jfi1ssioned to guard the "young child'' America. KITTY CHEATHAM. New York, June 16, 1935. ,I R _4. nms timrn.r;m_ l'TO " LEADER JUNE 11, l!J3i.i. LEIF VS. CHRISTO FO ers of Cclumbus an d of Leif Ericsson are again about to clash. nts of the Norsemen are gathere d th;s week in St. Paul to cele- ' N ew Y ol'k has ofCit:!ally 1·et:og-nized rs':';J}w ,.cantennial, and it ag:,,in has beE:.a brought to the the Norse-American Centennial cele­ those on the North A merican continent that Leif Er<csson •,.-as bration, to be hold at the Minnesota the origina d:scoverer of Amer:ca. state fai r grounds n,ixt month. So far Columbus has had all of the major share of the publicity, gained, •rhis was announced today by I'roC. Gisle Botllne, head of t hE' University not because he had as good a press agtmt as some movie stars, hut his of MlnnE>sota Scandinavian depart­ 1 ecords are more accurate than those of Leif. ment, chairman of t he centennial di­ However, history tells us that Leif landed on the Aremican shores 500 rectors, on word from ·New York that years before Co1 umbus, that the part of the coast where he landed is much in · unanimcl+"'-:, had that city's aldermen named a. parlc i n Brooklyn, Leiv ui:sput'e, but most recent investigations placing it at the southern part of Eriksson pa rk, as _ .1·eq_uestcd by Norse- ihe coast of Labrador, although many scholars believe Vinland to ha.ve been Americans .in then· city. I on the New England shores. i ncidentally Prof. Bothne a nno 1cerl Now we'll wait four months for the followers of Columbus t ris tllat L0iv Eiriksson is the ace )ted e wA 0 correct spelling- for the name of ie co ntradictory no�. � Mayo to accordingNorseman ·who, Bu1 ~ rYen before ·w rn iam of Nor. John F. Hylan's letl"r in sig•ning- the mandy had ronquererl Hastings, Leif resolution, "with ppcn boat and hardy the �on or Erir, nearly 300 years be­ sailors . feared not the wide wastes oe fore· Columbus, appears to ! 1 aYe found the A1 lantic, :finding America in 10, the New \\· orld. l ndeed there see ms l i t t le dol lbL t h al, SCYeral Cf!l1 1, 1 1ries beA. D." .,,, for e Columlrns saw t li e li gl·1 1, of da i·, l h erP \Yas born upon Amerrean soil , of No rsr, parents, a boy who after­ ward becam e so great a. mathemati­ cian and astronomer that his studies may h ave contributed much to the t'u11d of knowl edge wh i ch hel ped Col' umbus formu late his vi sion of the · f world as ,ye know il. Among the Fascinating chapters in == 1 k 1s e t h ages _ he ory 1 he d,ar I his1 or -,:c ==-=--======-1 storv o t' Tcetand. ,t\s � l i l,t lc Norse republ i c it mai ntained i tself for $CY: ·' ey Journal: j eral centuries as one or real reposA N OTABLE ANNIVERSA RY S1r : la:: in/ili read a letter froin & i l o ri es o f anci ent ru 11 urn in a ,Y or l d 1 �erso� \\ ho s igns h imself "A Hopef1'.l _ I who�r lamp of L ea l'n i n 12: seemPd nea1· Gymc. • he say.: th at Columbu s discov- 1 1 0 fl i ckerlni. ou1,. We h ave Jon/I'. • j T he Editor of the Evening Pos t : erect America. _ I t h i n )( h e i s '"".r on�. 1 k n o " n nf th e nob l e IreJandic li lc!·a1O -Sir-On this daY 1 5 0 years ago ( J une n ,Jun e 8, 19'>.,;:,. Presi dent Cool!d ge s ' l ur e whi c h \,·as producNi cl u r 1 11g \ arkncl\., Jed,:ment I I) ;\lmneso t a that l l i ose generati ons of the i n l e l l 0 ct u al 16, 1775) , under the old elm tree at Cam­ T,o i f El'icson. the :-:;orseman , foei and- \i 1 w i J i o· ll l : trn l we k no ,.., too l i ltle of bt'idge, Mass., General George Washington e r) v..•as th e real d 1sc o-v· ere r of A m e r- [ 1 11 c p w h i cl1 I c elancl performed, a s took the oath as commander-in�chief of ·ica. '!'h is is a Feport from th e Amer- 11 an ouart of t .h e s t u rdy Northern I i oan Standard. 'T'h ls co. untry \'l_' a s d i s- I cu. l t u retpost the Continental Army. brl dgi n "' OYCl' L il e gulf or in c ea vered by e r in t.lle _}' r, 100? o L if E ic / cl The sig-nificance of the event and its n e�s b e t.we e n " the ancient and s on. 'l' h.e President §....Lt ib ute to A m e ,\ arkern . mod e ras of h istory." relation to this vital hour in our national son . l s I Th ese sons of Th or and Od in ancl s real discoverer, Leif Eric ica ' history are emphasized by Benjamin as fo l lo" s : t l1 r great. free nort h shape themse!Yes . . Franklin's words to his guest John Adams Th ese Norsemen. whose begmnr n gs in t ile m i ncl's eyP as very princes of tn ! he Un ited Sta tes we here cele- l1 i g h ad YentnrB. From Norway Lo Jce­ as he poured forth his reverence and af­ brate h ave exercisd a great in fl uence lan d , Fro m foeland to <;,rcenlanct. from fection d'or \Vashington. Franklin's con­ upon ou1· modern history and w estern , G r eenl and l o the ma11:lancl. s tep by cludin g words were : ·'Above all, ,vashcivil ization which ls d i fficu lt to matcl t 1i s t e p t h BY workE:.d th,e1r \\·ay across • ington has a sense of the oneness of among a ny other l ike number of peo - l 1 1 e No rtll Atlanl ic. . rho foun� the pie. In many ways their mfluenoe "·este rn ocean , and 1 \ was a No r_se­ America. Massachusetts and Georgia are upon northern and western iu rope I man wl1 0 tl rst t raYerserl Beh r111g as dear to him as Virginia." ma) be compared to ! h a� o_f tt10 Stra i t and dem pnstr_at.cd !,h at L11 e1:e As we ponder these words "the oneness nreek states upon t h e 0 1 n !Jzat1on of was no l and connection between Asia America," of we see the Tower of Babel th e Modlterranean. 'rt1 ey \, ere tll e 1 and Nort h America. fl rst deep-sea navi1<:at or;; . 'T'l1cy pio- • Youl.,d t ru rs. crumbling, "the house of the Lot·d" (Frank­ A . Baker. neered 1hc m i grations "•h ieh ho lr!ly 11 lin's simile of America) appeadng and st r u ck a r·1·oss 1 11 0 \Yestern \\a ters. , .i<'i· se y C i ty, ,rune 22, 192ri. the purpose and mission of our great Fed­ TJ1 ry were al once t l1 e te1'rors of 1 11 0 eral Republic being revealed in its splendor. \\ · esl crn Roman �mpire and- I.h e p;uarclians of the East em. The medieYal Th.is unity is the light of divine de­ l\Jrd i l,Prranean was a happ-y h u n t m_g mocracy, the light of America triumphant, ground for !,h em . 'J'hey branded l11r1r in whose radiance will be revealed her dis­ name upon French Nor�andy._ a.nd from i t descended upon Br1tam l ll the coverer (in the :,,ea1· 1000) L�if Ericson, I Norman conquest, from wh ich t h ere the young Icelander, to whose achieve­ \ was t, lie beginning of modern Englh,11 ment President Coolidge paid homage in h isL orY. I , ( Letters to the Editor I �r ading President Cooldige's spirited •ddress to the Norsemen of the Northwest, delive r d at St. Paul, Minn., June 8, one i struck by the familiar marks of "pl'eparedness." Mr. Cool idge had, manifes ly, studied and read and had made, or ordered made for him, a large "dossier" for this Norse adventure. He d i d r,ot "refresh" his mind on the "sagas," as Colonel Roosevelt would have done, and he planned and carried out his plan not to delve into literature, a field unfurrowed by him. He stuck to the main currents of history, and talked to the rep resentativ�s of what is perhaps the most adventuring race of mankind about its sturdy forebeers. The Vikings that terrorized the traffick.ing coasts, the soldiers of fortun e that, for mercenary gain and for the sheer love of the game supported the tottering dynasties of Nov1 gorod or Byzantium; or the conquista- . dores that seized upon particularly alluring stretches of alien territory-all came i n brief but engaging review be: fore the speaker. And they are an alluring band. "What God abandoned, these defended, And saved the sum of things for pay." Glo rified mercenaries and pretorian guards of a world of weak despots and crumbling monarchie s ! But-without trying t o fi l c h a single' scrap of merit from a remarkably adroit and pleasing address to as fine I a race as has yet sprung from the loins of the earth-there is a single . brief sentence that stabs at us out I o f the ambuscade of flowery praise. Referring, of course, to the Norsemen, Mr. Coolidge sai d : "They w e r e the fi r s t deep-sea navi­ gators." Albeit from New England, foster­ child of ships, Mr. Coolidge is no sailor or sea-voyager. And he has accepted too readily something he has lately read about 'the exploits of the Norse1. men. They were not, by centuries, perhaps by millenniums, "the first deep-sea navigators." Perhaps Mr. Cool idge had in mind some p articular "deep sea." But even in the "whale-bath"' of the Atlantic arid' North Sea, the latter of which the Norse vikings mas tered, and the former of which they skirted among its northern fringes, an xiously watching the flight of their pilot ravens, they were not "at home" as I we re the far better sailors of the Medi­ te rranean races. More than a thousand years before the most daring Norseman ventured far beyond the Lofoten Islands off lthejr. own {loasts. Hanno and other 1 Phenicians "had sailed deep i�to the 1 south Atlantic; around Africa, had raked the shores of southern and west­ ern Britai n, had visited the Azores had scattered their coins-,rnme hav� been dredged from the Sargasso Sei. I -had, in all probability, �isited Amer­ ica ; almost certainly the West Indies E.u.theas, the Greek fro m Massillia ( Marseille), • probably visited the. Norse lands themselves long before the Norsemen had emerged from the . welter of barbarians around the Baltic basin. And as early as Putheas, or as early as Hanno and his Punic seamen, the Chinese and Japanese appear to have t:raversed '.he deep waters of the mid­ Pacific, and carried on commerce and C'ommunications betwe en the Far East and Mexico, perhaps traded with the Mayas and · Incas . o f the south. And perhaps as· early or earlier, the f olynesians, especially the magnifi­ cent Maoris, had made the · deep-seas of the Pacific and Ind ian Oceans their tramping fields and hunting grounds, 1 voyaging to and fro between unsuspected isles in far-off 6Cas. 1 No ; there i s too much to the credit of these heroic Norsemen to try to , attach another laurel to their crowded brows. They have glory enough: The deep-sea is n ot their "whale-bath." That quarry was won long before their birth by the dark sailors of Utica and Karthage· and Tyre, or of the Hel­ 1enic colony i n France, or by the :rest­ less Japanese of the Inland or the still m ore restless C h inese of the Yel­ low Sea. The Norse were late-comers 1 on these waters, although to them the deep sea was strange �nd incon• ceivably fearful, and they went gladly at the task of subduing it· to their will. r--�--'-- '• • · I;) ID THE NORSEMEN DISCOVER can 1\istory. I f there can be esi:ab1ished a def1• I AM ERICA :> h i p between the Labrador re l ics a n d t nite kins • 1 ce 1 e b• ra- homes 0 c t h e ;:J o-,t {colon:-,·. th;t . chapte . , ,. h1 e The recent � 1 orwegian c- e n t·ennia J . � t e d in t h e D nited States call s attention to the t-rad i tion t h at, prior to the offi cial Norwegian be written." emig-ration to this co un try, lhe Norsemen l a nded on these shores on a voyage of adventu re or dis.c overy. -This \\ as supposed to have been a'b out the year 1 000, f i \·e cen turies ah ead of Col umbus One o f th:o obj echves a i m ed at by Don ald B . :.\Iac:M i l l an o n his voyage o f d isco very b y boat and airp l a n e to the Far Xorth, 1s lo bring back proof 0 £ the N orsemen's pre·historic visit. lVIad,I i l l an saJs there is e v ery reason to b e­ l ieve that the Norse sailed from Greenland and visited A m erica. The poi n t s at which t h ey touched are $Upposed to be 0i ewfou n d l a n d and Labrador. l\'I ac 1I i llan will m ake a carefu l study of Labrador relics that seem to date from this visit. He w i l l then sail to t b c west coast of Greenland an d Y isit t h e llon1 e o( the "Lost_ Col ony of Green­ l a n d ," e6tablisbed there in <)80 bv Eric the Red. T h is legendary colony d isappeared d uring the su cceeding three centuries . . T o q uote Captain �I ad\I i-l ! an : "There are -st i l l standing remnants o ( 1 80 farm s and twenty­ four stone churches without a s i ngl e inhabitant. In them .p robably lies the first chaptf:r of Ameri- �11.V Whom D i d Coolidge Refer? I T t,¥e Editor of The New York Ttme• : In Pre&ldent Coo!ldge's addre•• at th• 1 Norse Centennial he made this statement : "Indeed, there seems little doubt that sev­ er :t enturles before Columbus saw the l!ght o! day there was born upon American soil or .:-;one parento, a boy who afWrwe.rd i,e� came so great a mathematician and astron- ' cmer that his etudles may have· contributed i ; I much to the fund of knowledge which helped Columbus formulate hla vision ot the world as we know It." I To whom we., the President referring? I L. M. MUZZEY. JI, Chatha.m;i N. Y., Jl.tne 10, 10" N . l: In your Issue ot June 18 • • • L. M. Muzzey Inquires as to whom the Presi­ dent meant in his recent address during the celebration of the Norse-American Centennial when he spoke ot a boy born of Norse parents on the shores of Amer­ ica several cent;urles before Columbus rediscovered America. This chf.ld was Snorre, the son of Thorfinn Karlsevne and his wife Gudrid, widow of Leif Erikson's brother Thor­ stein, who also had tried to reach Vin­ land (America), but failed and died In Greenland after many hardships. Snorre must have been born In the year 1 008, and was the first native white .American. 'l'he statement made by the President to the effect that Snorre became a great �1athematlclan and astronomer whose studies may have contributed to the fund of knowledge which led Collin us make his eventful voyage I have nvt, to 1 however, been able to verify. What we l do know Is that a distinguished family T he Fir.st Norse-American. speeches before condemning or prais­ ing them? A reviewer in New York constantly Is apologizing to his readers for un ­ fairly presenting a new book. He looks at the binding, the name. or the , pu1Jlisher,, then \)roceeas; &alemnly to indicate tfie points of weakness �n the narrative! Another writer recently dismissed as I platitu<linous one of the noble.st liter. ary effort s ot the president's llfe:· n , won't do! But to the point. PRESIDENT COOLIDGE SA.ID THAT LEIF ERICSON, THE NORSE­ MAN (ICELANDIDR) AND NOT CO­ LUMBUS WAS THE DISCOVERER OF AMERICA! That was sensation enoug11 for one speech, but it Is what the boys might be tempted to describe as a hum din­ ger. In that speech, delivered in St. Paul, the .President said: ''Indeed, there seems little doubt that several centuri� before Co• lumbus saw the light of day there was born upon American soil, o! Norse· par.ents, e, boy who after• ward became so great a niathema• tician and • astronomer that his studies· may have contributed much to the !un d of knowledge which helped Columbus formulate his vision o! the world as we know it." Here is history with a vengeance. As a matter ot fact, President Coo- / .idge has furnished the real sensation )f the ;r ear. m ,:: ,: I " :: SS B:S,�, B L E �u::-,,. UM A COOLIDGE SENSATION at sounds strange, doesn't it, but ·anger still are the thrl!ling facts about to be revealed. Did the president play an innocent joke on the public? Di<l he assume to apply · a practic� test-to ascertain \ whether the people really read his ' 1 25 / In his a cldress at ll'. 8 Nol'se _ Cent en1 1 1i�l Presi clent Cool1d ge sa1.!l that , j sev• 1at .d.QJJ. little Ge�ms I "there Colnm bus saw r 1 eral centur ies before I I the light of clay there was born upon I f a s, parent Norse of Amerir an soil . g,0a�, / lJOY who afterw./11:d becamB P() l a mathe ma! idan ancl astronomer tha t I his studie s may havP ci:mtrib ute<1 I l much to the funrl o f lmowle clgr wll i c h _ , helped Columb us to formul ate h M it." ' vision of the world as we k lOW Many have wonder ed t o whom the I ' PreF!icle nt referrect and �c not yet ! seen the a11swe r r:_� · I �Descendants of Norse 'Mayflower' Pioneers a · - 6. :_j �� CenteW1i 1 Celebrati �eers in Orleans Were Norw-egians; ?. Sett led Near Kendal j 'Hear Sagas Of Adventurer Who Braved Sea In the Tiny Ships Holley, June 8.-Ame )J.!a�<;�teu; true survi�ing descendant of --n iaJ, which is being held at St. Paul ol'igi nal immigr;a11 ts, and ;w.i th he.r '-" �.. " .l\'I�EAPOLIS - Among th1, centen the now is husband attending to celebrate the one hundredth Norw� gians present_ at the Nor�enial as a guest of the govern ment. American centenmal celebration anniversary of the first grQup of NorHistory of were dimct descendants of the Arad Thom·a s's "Pioneer wegjans to (.;Orne to America, is of Orleans County" co ntains the foll0w• Stavange : ( slo�pers ) , who came 'nten•st to Orleans county and h in g reference to the Norwegian set t l e, over on t e A eg1r in 1837, and 1ater, ov�r on the Restaurationen, the ,, 1,eciaily to the town of Kendall ment at Kendal : Norse Mayflower, in 182:5, just 100 where the first Norwegians settled. " About t he year i 825, a c ompany years ago, most of whom settled 111 on J u ly 4, 182 5, fifty-two peopl e . . No1way, . . ,,. of Norwegian s, abo 1,1t fifty•two Ju Orleans County, New York. . • home m elt, their sa1lm,,, . There were the descendants or rnt to sea in their little sloop, Res- n :imber, settled . on t� e lake shoTe, JD the Fox River colonists in I llinois, I th,, north west part of th e town. Th ey le d there 'by the Slogvigs, and Gudoration. The vessel pas built on the �am e f rom No r way tog eth er anil I inu nd Haugaas in 1833 ; of .�he - Chi 1 model common • to :fis litn boats • ].( -ol, up land in a body. They we 1 e an cago N orwegians, the fl{st of '· that coast whom wa;; Knud Langeland, who lo. measuring only forty-five I 1 "' ct us t nous, prnden. an d wor:, h Y cated there in 1836; of the Samanto'f)�. . g•J ,d ::-epute by p-� u pl e ger 1,eople held Ill and Yoss immigrant$ who came 1 I After a te ct10us voyage of fourteen in t hat vi c in ity. After a few yr�ars under the leadership of Nils Lan• · ·week<J they landed in New York on :hE, y began to m ov e away t o joi)l geland, and of the immigrants of • •relemarkeh, led by Ole Trobatten. C ctober 9, 1825. The party came from tn - � 1r . countrymen who �ad settled rn 'I' hes-e names and many othets . and :r--: ew York direct to Orleans county fllmo1s, but few of that c-o lony shared the honor swith the distin­ an d in. the late autumn of that year are stiH in Kenda 1 guished group of Norse lead�o st- ttled in the northern part of the " They thought it very i. m port ant have,, taken . a high �he l i.fe ,• of tne nation, whose mdependent, . tn wn of Kendall on what i-s known ,1.s t hat every family should have ia1vl courageoui, and adventurous spirits tbe Norwa y road. Thi's was the first eu d a home of thPl:· own. A neighbor .now find 1;:xpression in politcis, e cofJn ce • a s ked a litt le Norwegian buy omics, e<iuciatio11 and science, as N o � wegian settlement in America. l The leadei. of th e Jilarty, Lars Lar- whose father happ ened to be too p oo r seeker s of new l_ands in progressive S(fn, remained in New York to' dis- t.o own land, )Vh'}re his father livec thought and actwn. A long program preceded the pose of _the ship, which li'e finally all(} was answe·r ed, , 'O, we doift riv <;i presidential address Monday. As sold for $400. Winter had set in, the l:)OWhere, we hain't. got no Ja!l.d ." port 0£ the morning session, Miss c1:1nal was closed, there were no rail_, Jane S. Atwater, principal of the Pa1kside School, Chicago, and l'0:il ds or trolley cars and automobiles daughter of the 'sloop baby" born w,;re still undrearnE)d of, so Mr. Laraboard the historic vessel t hat SEln skated from .Albany to Holle y on brought the ol'iginal :tty-three North e canal. Mr. Larsen made his ho m e wegian pioneer•s to America, told the story of her mother. in Rochester and the house he built She repeated the saga of th at for his family in 1827, the oldest daril1g expedition which v<mtured to house built bjr a Norwegian in Ameri• cross the ocean in a tiny vessel, ca. still stands at No. 37 Atkinson loaded with iron to keep jt from tipstreet. ping over. She told of the birth of th<:! first child, her mother and the :vrany of the immigrants who :first daughter of Lars Larson, wh o f i. sr ttled in K endall answered the call nanced and led the expedition . or tne W eHt and man y of tlie Middle Simply and touchingly she de1 Western states are largely settled bY scribed her mother, typcial of pioneer womanhood, a story of devoN'orwegians. The last one of the tovn t o Norwegian ideals which vriginal fifty-twp to come over i n seemed tremendously to interest :!.82 5 to leaye Kendall was Henry the thousands of the siteakers' cou -\._ Warwick, wh o came, to Holley ·in try:men. I . 1876. He died in this village, at his ; home in Albion street, in 1884. Mrs. ' L . .J. Parker, of Kendall, is the o�ly Jf':U., on ,' �[ idge in a speech at the celebration makes the story more interesting. The MAY 1, 1 9 2 5 1 Mayflower was a vessel weighing 1 80 Restaurationen while the tons, 1 - LOCAL MAN'S MOTHER weighed only 9 tons. While the hard­ IN lll25 ships endured by the Puritan ship in OVER CAME J I its long journey is so oft emphasized B. Olmstead of Springdale is in in sto:i.-y, theirs was only of nine weeks re t elf a communication from Rev. luration, and similar hardships were H Hflagenson, pastor of the Lu- mdured by these Norwegians for th �urch at Seneca, Illinois, 'ourteen weeks. The Restaurationen as g fo information concerning arried a heavy cargo of iron beside cestors, who came to . merica his Most of fifty-two passengers. in the early days, it being planned -to i1e bold a celebration at Minneapolis, 1ese people were farmers who settled 1 land in Minnesota. Minn., · June 6-9. It will probably be of interest to ,11an:v Springdale people to learn that N'orw·ay, To-.; Mr. Olmstead's grandfather, Onn .'J:J: _ Thompson, was one of the men who __ THU __::: _ chartered the "Sloop" in Norway in . ial nn nte Ce No rse 1825, and with a party of emigrants set sail for the new land of America. In the party was � little daughter of leav e for Min nea polis to d1.t �n� .Mr Thompson, who was Mr. Olm­ stead's mother. The ship was heavi­ the N orse A mer ican cent enn ial. ly loaded, and encountered a severe tb e one hun dred th an nive rsary storm, and for a JtumbH of days the pioneers were without food. 'The of the arri val of the sloop Res­ ship was 16 weeks making the jour­ tora tion , arrl vlnll in N e w York ney from Norway to New York. , harbor Oct 9, 1925 , my fath er, Mr. Olms has a number of rel­ \ of one g bein ail, Risd ics which came over in the "Sloop," ove e j hat t and has very vivid recollection of on pas seng ers tho stories of th<> journey as related by !'st the f of per ilou s trip his mother. The celeb ·ation at Mi e.a olis is Norwe2i�wigrauts in honor of the escenclants of those I being one of who came over in 1825, and Presi­ years ago. dent Coolidge will be one of the t decen dants liv• direc welve t the speakers on this occasion. honored SPlUNCDAJ -E. A1Ht .. NEWS 1 ·1 SJ l too Lamon' , !.., Chr 11· -1. THUP�').\Y. J "TN� 18. 19'� !{ELATIVES GUESTS / OF TWO NATIONS Mrs. Nellie Olson's Grandfather Camf From Norway in Sloop Restau­ rationer 100 Years Ago The Norse-American Centennial whi as held in Minneapolis last week wa • h and­ ing of the Norwegian sloop es aura: tionen in New York harbor, in 1825. The sloop brought to America the first organized party of Norwegians 1 I consisting of fifty-two people. In this j party was Goodman Hougas, grandfather of Mrs. Nellie Olson of La­ moni. Representatives of the two succeed­ ' mg gene1·ations of this pioneer fam­ f ily who settled fi r st in Minnesota and later drifted to Illinois, were selected 1 : to be guests of honor at this big cen­ tennial celebration. They are Mrs, Carrie Bowers, Sheridan, Ill., a daugh­ ter of Goodman Hougas, now a very old lady, and her niece, Miss Sadie Seal of Chicago. These ladies were members of the sloop party who dined with President Coolidge and wife, and other American and Norwegian digni­ taries. The centennial celebration was at­ tended by 250,000 people. The sloop Restaurationen left Sta­ venger, Norway, July 4, 1825 and was fourteen weeks on the voyage across the Atlantic. Comparisons with the Mayflower, made by President Cool- I I. I will be an ing, the Board of D irectors cf guest of the centennial , This little sloop 'got lost at sea and drifted · into the Maderia Islan ds on the coas t of Afrlc a, and was near being sullk in the ocean from the guns on shore a they had neglected to hoist their flag, being takeu for a pirate ship, His fathe r was the first one to see l a nd a.nd raise the Hag which saved the i:hip. L\t­ tle dij these bold sloor ers n ream at that ti me that their adven ture • would ever be viewe d as an epoch ­ makin g one in the h istory of the Nor wegi an peop le. They left Stava nger, Norw ay , July 4, ar. d arri'led i n New York Oct 9, 1825 . Ther e were- 52 persons when they started, and 58 wb�tl. tbey attived, one !v!a.rgret Larson Atw atter. was boro aboard: Pres ident Coolidge wm be there to deliv er &n address on Mon day, June 8. Nor way , , Europe, wm be represented by a chorus of 50 voices-30 wom en and 20 men . I have the dist in�­ tlon of bein g the only dire 1.,, i' desc enda nt livin � \n the state of . " Iow a. -Ja cob Ros dail P::1 ul!in3 '(!a.) Times _ THURSDAY. MAY Zl, 1.925 1S FIRST NORWEGIAN MAN BORN IN IOWA: Jonas Norland Claims Distinction ot Being First Norwe , ian, Boy Born in Iowa Primghar Bell-The firi:at N orwegian xe tlement in Iowa was made in Ben­ ton rounty, near the town of Norw:i.y, in 1854 and that sa me year Jonas Norland of Primghar was born­ sevetity-one years ago. One. child, a girl , now dead was born a few months previous to tl;e birth of Mr. Norland. TheRe early Norse immigrants made t he trip to America in a sailing vessel, bring ma ny weeks on the wa'!:er and i:anffered rnnch in the early days ln A merirn. Tl1ere - were no railroads in Iowa a t the time the!':e settlers rame--:­ tbf' firi-t road not being completed until ,J anua ry. 1856. this being the Rock Islana from Davenport ito Iowa City, t he first train entering the l atter city 1 the third of January that year, The ties and rails being laid on the frozen I ground and the road went out of : commission with the spring thaws, m to· j The Norse immi America one hundred years ago an a I great celebration ls to be held at Minneapolis in June at the State Fair I grounds, President Coolidge being • among the speakers advertised. j Mr. Norland informs the writer that be saw and visite<l with the last 111r­ vlvor of the first party of Immigrants, now long dead. This first party of Norwegians lef't their na•t ive land on July 4, 1825 and landed in America on October 9, 1825,. being three months in making th& crossing that is now made ln on:e week. · The Norwegians are a sturdy, thrif­ � 1 peop1e,-'good ctitfaerfs--krnd have proved among the best people of Amer• ira, i:ao that all will rejo!re· with them in this celebration of their· rentennial in America . 1 �Whiting Pioneers at Norse Celebration says : "It was a good speech and he is a fine man and we could hear ev­ er ;y woud of it too." Mr. Olson was impressed by the vast crowds but thinks the most beautiful sight was matio• n, of school children ar­ ranged to represent the Norse and American flags. Mr. Olson came from ·Norway to fowa in 1 8 7 2 when he was 17 years old and his wife in 1 869 when she wa� 1 2 years old. Both were rl'lsi­ dents of Clinto-s, county u'ntil/ they ca:ne to Whiting more than 40 ye.ar�. ago. They have made this ;thE:lir h;me since that time. Whiting Ia June 15 Mr. and Mrs. H . J. Olson early settle.rs of Iowa and ,pioneers of Whiting and theiT diau­ ghter-in-law Mrs. Bert Olson return ed from the wegian centennial • celebration at Minn • hearts full of praise for the ",o1d country" an<l love for the "new. " Old acquain,tances and school friend­ ships, formed before they 1.1ft Nor­ way, were ren�wed with laughter and tears. Mrs. Bert Olson saw 2 5 Norway acquaintances while there, six of whom were in her confirmation, class. The elder Mrs. Olson in speak­ ing of President Coolidg�•s address I __.:::��- Hi.l wley ,/f'n _ THUB_SDAY. JTT _· ,, lnteres�ing Facts About The Norse Centennial com· ng In connection Norse-American centennial it is int:resting to note t�at th� firs: authe� • t�� record. _of a N orse_ 1mm_ 1gran t m .l'I.lmnesota is that o f N 1l s N1 lson, b orn 1,. l\Iodum, Norway: Jan. 2, 1830, who came to St. Pa�l m _ 1 8 4� after havmg worked for a time _m the l�ad mmes near Galena, Ill, Nilson obt�med work at a sort of hotel [or mn k nown as "M offet:' s_ C �st 1_e, " _ near t he bank_s of the M1ss1ss1pp1 river, approximately where the new St. Paul U nion station now stands. The follow­ ing spring he went to Stillwater where he worked i na sawmill, remaining a resident of. that city until 1882 when he bought a farm near ��ew York Mills, Minn. He died there a few years ago. The first Norse woman known to have located in Minnesota was Miss Ingeborg L. Langeborg, who came to St. Paul with her brother Amund, in 1 8 50_ They were natives of Hallindal Norway. Miss Lange berg was employ eel for about a year as a domestic , servant in the home of Alexander ! Ramsey, >first territoria)!. governor, I and secona state governor of Minn. ! It, was during Ramseys regime as I territorial governor that she was em­ 1 oye d 1• 11 the executive househo'ld. P Miss Langeberg then moved to Frid, ler , Minn ; where she married a ·man 1 I named Clark later removing t,,J 1 · I M:!::ekE:r county and still later to , Minneapolis. H was in 1852 t}lat • Norse im­ migrants began to c-o me to. Minn. in t any considerable m.:.m ber but fro�1l then on for sev·e ral decades there was a constant stream of them, ser1 ling in southeastern Minnesota and rapidly setti:ng farther •1orth and west in this state. Goodhue county wmch oecam.'? one of the largest and most prosperous • of Norse s�ttle ments in the state, was first settled in 1852. Scores of the finest farms in that county are still owned by des- : cendants of those who homesteaded I I them in th� 50's. From this modest Jbeginning o1 Norse settlement in Minnesota, 7 5 / 1 j years ago it is now estimated by Dr. 0. M. Norlie, well known statist- i • ician of Luther College, Decdrah, Ia. i that the population of Norse-Ameri- \ cans in this state is. approximately 5 2·5,000 or 22 per cent of the states' population, more than one out of every five of the states inhabitants. Dr. Norlie is also authority for other , interesting figures relative to Minn- ' esctans of Norse birth or blood. H e esimates that 2 1 4,000 o f them are bread winners ; 1 0 0,000 working on farms ; 40,000 lin mecrhanical and manufacturing \Pur,uits ; 20,000 in trndes ; 1 4,000 in transportation and an equal number in domestic service 1 3 ,000 in clerical service and 1 1 ,000 in p:roffessional S1e1)V" ice. Based on careful i nvestigation by Samuel G. Iverson, former state auditor, and others, it is estimated that 4 5 ,000 Norse-Americans in Minnesota own farms, with an acreage of mw·e than 7,500,000 acres and worth, with the improvements more than $ 1 ,000 ,00G 0 0 0. Not a bad accumulation fo1· on­ ly seventy five years. f Dr. Norlie also gives these further f figure:;, r';lative to occupations of Norse-Americans in Minnesota : re­ tail merchants, 5,400 ; teachers, -i 80G carpenters, 4,40 0 ; lumbering, 2,800 miners, 2,000 public service, 2000 stationary engineers, 1 ,60 0 ; bank­ ers, 1 ,000 ; clergymen, 600 physicians 1 600 ; nurses, 600; t echnical engine­ 'ers, 550 ; .lawyera, 500 ; insurance agents, 450 ; dentists, 3 0 0 ; prefesors 3 0 0 ; printers 300 editors,175. I I �iiO RS E CER.E MO Nl RECALLS OL MSTE D! E A R L Y SETTLE . � , th u s bec o m i ng no t onl y t he firs t white settlers i n Clay co u n ty, b u t also t he first permanent white se tI tlers i n D lrnta t rritor . � � � At First Settl ed Rock Dell­ :F'irst White Child Bom Was Norse The f o rthcom ing Norse-Ameri cm f'cnten n i �l to he h P-ld in S�. Pa11l an :\l inneap oli , brtng to min• that among t h e earliet t secti on s t, receive a quot a of Norse settler s wa Olm ,;ted c ou n ty. People from Nor wa· hegan c o min g here bu t 29 years afte· ibe first of these European peopll settled i n .Americ a. It is recorde d th at in the year 185, the first settleme nts were bei n g madt in Rock Dell tow n ship, this coun t:,, A gl an ce at some o f the names w i l sh o w t h e Nor se ext r acti on. Nels Ne! son, Tollef Oles on, Ole Oleson , Ole Ama n son, Gusta l\.'[olson , I. Golber g Ole Tollefson, a n d Ole Christ , all set­ tled th i s year. Came From Wiscon sin A n early c h ron ic le says, "The37 c ame mostly · from. the Nm·wegi an settlements i n Dano: c'ou nty, \Vi sc on­ siu. Roc:c Dell is almost wholly set­ tled hy Sca n din avians." The fi r st white birth in Rock Dell was a Norse c hild, Ole T. Oleson , son o[ T. Oleson. He was born Septem­ ber 9, 1854. The fi rst death w as als o a person of Norse origin, Gusta M ol­ so. It was a n No rseman who open ed one of the first sto res. Nels Ma.gn e­ son was hi s name. He became post­ m aster for Rock Dell postoffic e. In Salem Townsh ip Also In Salem tow ns h ip in the year 1854, Norse settlers also loc ated. Amon g them w�e Ole C. Wegger, T. B. Isaac­ i::on , Ch risto p her Isaacs on, and Aaron An derson. Edwa r cl A. an d Mary (Ole­ son ) Holtan, had the h onor of being the par ents of th e first w h ite c h i ld born in that township . The child w a2 named .J ulia. NORWEGIANS flRST SETTLED \·I . Fu·st Wlute Child 2 ' 1 8 6 ?' Mr� . Je_tley � , IN DAKOTAS IN CLAY COUNTY ,' g veOn bir h o a 1, n, baptized O a rc h I Olso n , wh o l ate r cl a imed the dis­ t i n ctio n of •being the firs t whit e child b orn in t he territo ry an d t ook a promi n ent pa rt in polit ic s defe at­ ing Carl G un derson , the p resent g o ver n or of So u th Dak o t a , fo r elec­ tio n t o t h e sta te se n ate in 1 8 9 4 . In 'September, 1 8 5 9 , Ole Botto l f­ s o n als o move·d, a cr oss t he river fr o m Nebr aska, follow i rtg the next mo n th by Syvert My ro n , Elli n g O. E n g u m and L ars T o rblaa. D u ring t h e following wi nt er the rest o f :N o r wegia n colony i n Nebrask a crossed the r i ver on the ic e, so t hat i n 1 8 6 0 , w hen t he la n d was fo rm ally opened f or settleme n t , a go o dJy band ' o f Vik i n gs\ were a lready i n p o ssession. W ith i n a few years hund reds of Norwegi ans had "trekk ed " ac ross the prairies from Wis­ co nsin and E astern Iow a to the fertile valley o f the M issou r i i n Dak o ta and t h e sett lement extended all the w ay fr o m Y an kto n o n the wes t to the Si o ux River o n the e ast- one o f t he largest and ri che3t Norse colonies in Amer ica. a Selected Homesteads in Dakotas Ile· f01:e Land was Opened for Entry i- t t o ( Edit o r's No t";; 'lltG 41 nc]� Norse-American cen ten n ial celebrae· J b@M jp. }he Twin C i ties in June has pr o mp ted sut'h in t� rest � n I the his tor y of the NorweJpa n s m j America that Ma.r t l n W . Odl a nd : has • p repared a brief ' his tor y · of the first No rse se ttleme n t in the Dako t as, which i s pri nted below f o r th be n ef i f of Ga.pifal �j' o u,rna l rea ders ) l The first N or wegian . settlemen in Dalrnta ter ritory, which in 1 8 8 . became the s tates • of ., North South Dak o ta , w a s st ar ted in t I Misso u ri Valley, Clay : Coun t y, rn I 1 8 5 9. Tw o years • befor.'e t hat t ime ; a number o-f No r wegi a n pio neers · had formed a temporary settleme nt at North ·B end and S t . J ames, Nebraska, on t he so u th side o f th e M isso ur i , with the in te n tion of cr o ssing t he r iver and tak i n g homest oa:ds in Dak o ta j ust as s o on a s the l an d t h ere w as thr o wn open to Dl'iven Out The level "b o ttom l an ds'." entry. In 18 6 2 the se t tleme n t y.ras ternas t hey we re ca lled, w h ich lay alo n g the n o rth bank o f the M isso u r i fro m porarily aband on ed on ar count o f India n Mounted "scare" . Vermill ion wes t ward to Yankto n , the l o o ked good t o these Norwegian pio- 1 s o ldiers rode a l o ng th e valley or � ­ neers and they were determ i ned "to eri u g the settlers to_ f ee f o r their lives i n to Iow a . Tl1 1s cau sed grea t , h ave the firs t ch a nce at them. distress and hardshil). S o me o f the Colony Foi;i,ncle:i· men we r e away-ha u ling provis i ons Ole Olson G j e i tl i ol' Jet ley m ay to the soldie r s at t h e forts farther be c a lled t h e f o u n der of the c o lony. west or empl o yed on s teamb o a ts He w as a shrewd·, resourcefu l man n : from Voss, N o r way, wh o did n ot plyi g t pe M issouri-and t heir poor wives were c o mpelled t o drive t•i r le nc U f o stand so m u ch i n awe flocks of ca tt le a nd s h eep t o the Sam's rules a nd regulations , as most coun tryme n , aud he pro- rendezvous at Verm i llio n o 1· leave h is of to the mer cy o f the Ind i a n s. posed that they select thei r h o mer , M r �. Halste ads bef o re the land was ope n ed refo ot t hrough f o r settlemen t , o n the the ory t h a t . �,;....�:.:_.;.;......,.,....,.�.,.JIL.. . possessi o n i s n i n e p o ints o f l a w. f1 t all g rass, car r ying one ch ild Acco1,dingly, in company with he r atms, and le a ding t wo o t her s Christian Br u de, Lars Anders o n m he r home to Ver milli o n ten T or bla a a n d Halv or Svendsen, he les a way. A t this poi nt a car a­ c r ossed the river f o r a t o u r o f ex- v w as fo rmed, which wound i t s pl o r a tio n a n d, some eight miles y slowly �o Council B l u ffs, Iowa, west o f Verm i llio n a n d three miles e re i t halted. After a few n o rth o f the river, selected h is f u ­ on ths the d a nger f r om the In­ ture homeste a d w h i ch l ay o n a a ns passed and· the se t tle r s re t u r n­ On "bench" o r sligh t eleva t io n . t o their h o 1:iiesteads. August 9 , 1 8 5 9 , Je t ley and Svend­ Bad Floods sen br o ught their wives and al l o f B u t t h e Indians wer e not the , their p ossessions t o thei r new homes n ly d an ger th a t these first Da· 1 �ota settle rs had to conte nd with. �h e floods were even worse . These ame i n, the early sprin g when the snow thaw ed, causi ng the Misso uri to overf low its bank s and swee p out over the low 1'botrt oms" . The wors t o f these flood s �as that of 1 8 8 1 . Ther e was an un­ / usual ly heavy fall of snow that , winte r and on accou nt o f a sudde n ' t '.iaw arly i n the sprin g, the h uge _ � _ l nver I ose m its might , burst the thlck ice which sough t to hold it down , forme d an im mense gorge in a bend below Vermi llion, and then poure d its m ighty YOlum e o f water o ut over the valley . House s were swept away , almos t all of the h orses, cattle sheep and swine were d rowned , a few people also drown ­ ed an,d others had narrow escape s. 't was a terribl e blow to the com­ \un ity, from which i t took many ye\f s to recover. I 1· Minn eapoHs, Minn . Joi· n S UNDAY.J UNE 'f 192.5 �nu te Nelson ,Called G reate�t Ame ric • Bi rth, {nspiralion to A t . ReCentenmal �Celebration In May, 1861, in the Fourth W 1 scons1n that contest, Senator Nelson within a Infantry.. He was a \ lad of 18, but few years became the idol of Mmnesota calls Me� orable Career of Im• played a man's part, an_d was severely \ republicans and was the unanimous wounded and taken pr1scmer at Port choce of his party for re-election in 1901 . m1gran t Boy Who Rose to Be Hudson in June, ;1863. He was ex- 19 0 7 and 1913. In 1918 he ran at th; c'.1ange_d and served until the end of general election as the candidate of - h l!!I I e d States Senator From h1s e ? hstment In 1864, when on a�count party, and won his last popular indorse• un·t of fa1llng health he did not re-enllst but ment . He had planned on retirement, Minnesota \ went back home and finished his cours• but was induced to stand again for the in the academy. sake of his party. . . Read 1;;aw Two Y�a rs KNUTE NELSON I n his 2 8 years of service in the Read mg law two- years m the offi ce United States senate Knute Nelson OWERIN<: over colleagues in the oun g. gained recognition a� a thorough stu• political life of Minnesota for more of William F. V ilas at Mad ison , 'l; than a generat ion, Knute Ne1son leit � Nelso;1 m_ast� red enough to pass his bat' dent, a man of unflinching integrity and memory that will be an Inspiration not e�am mat! on m 186 7 . In that same y ear purpose, alw ·s voting and speaking his victions. He served for a only to men and women of Scandinavian h i s politi cal career began. · H e was sincere of years as chairman of the descent, but to every citizen. He stand 9 el ected to the lower house of the Wis• nu ate judiciary coqi.mlttee, and in that without dispute as the greatest Ameri- consin leg is lature, and re- elected i n can of Norwegian bit-th, and he was 18 6 8 . I n 1 8 7 1 he moved to Minnesota, position had charge of many important t aking _up 3: h omestea� n ear Alexandr�a bills, including the national prohibition ! great largely so for the reason that he which 1s still the family home. In h1 9 legislation. He died in the harness, on was so intensely an American. Coming to America with his poor , first r ear the new county c hose him a journey home after the adjournment _ attorney. After service in of congress in A pt'll, 1923. county as s x wid owed mother when he was si year old and earning his first money as a that capaci ty he was elec t ed state sena• , Forme r Governor Jacob A . o. Preus newsboy on the st reets of Chfcago, tor in 18 7 4 . H e was , re- e l ected in 1 87 6 said in a biographical sketch that Knute Knute Nelson rose to be governor of but decline� to _run a third time. He Nelson ls "the greatest inspiration of his state and for 2 8 years was a mem- was a presidential elector I n 188 0, but ouT day to the Jowly American J m­ ber of the United States senate . No otherwise was out of publi c life for mig rant ." ---------higher post was open to a citizen of for• four y ears. I n 1882 ,h e became a candidate for eign birth, and he well carried out his congress in the new fifth district, which boyish promise to his -mother. "Do not weep," he told her. "When took in all the northern half of Minne­ I grow up I shall be next to the king." sota. It was a memorable fight in which Nelson defeated Charles F. To Perpetuate Memory Knute Nelson was honored i n · life as Kindred, a wealthy man with primitive ' few men have been, and his memory is ideas about the use of money In pol• to b e perpetuated by a statue in front itJcs. Nelson won in the convention of the Minnesota state capitol, honoring fig ht but there was a Kindred conven• him for all time as one of the great tlon also and the batt le was carried t o m e n of his beloved state. Friend s are the polls, where Nelson won handily. rais i ng a fund for the e rection of this He was re-elec ted in 1884 and 188 6, and 1 declined to run again. He was apstatue. Practically his whole I'ife was devot• p ointed a. regent of the University of Minnesota and held that post from 188 3 H• ed to ·the service of his country, One to 1893 . I had a remarkable political career. I n 1892 Mr. Nelson was nominated un­ of its unique features was the fact that he ran many times for publi c offic e, animously for governor of Minnesota by the republican party. He led his and never was defeated. Soon after his mother brought him t o party successfully against the forces of this country, she settled on a piece of democracy, then at the crest of their land near Deerfield, Wis., where young power, and of the new Farmers' All i• Nelson spent his boyhood in the hard ance. In 1894 he was re-elected b:f l abor of a frontier farmer. He had a. mbre than 6 0 , 0 0 0 votes over Sidney M. thirst for education, however, and from Owen, populist. The following winter the district school went t o Albion came the historic ]'Telson-Wa.shburn bat. Academy, which he was a ttending when tle in the legislature, ending in the elec• the Civil war broke out. He did not tion of Governor NeJ1;on as United wait for the later organization of a Wis • I States senator i n January, 1 8 05. Became Idol of Republicans consin Norwegian regiment, but enlisted In spite of the feeling engendered by UL.>er, 1,-ll"t'.�11H IJ!, UH L\.:\-J. T r------------------�---------------------_J �est and stone and developed the soil and very imposing appearance as viewed built their homes. He located the vii- from the highway. The original Chil­ lage of Witte?lberg and gave it its name dren's Home within the village of Wit­ and this became his tield of activity tenberg was remodeled into a_ Home for ] the Aged and it is serving as such at until he died. He was a very large man physically. the present time. He also had a big heart for the helpless, As stated before, Rev Homme was a the sick and the sorrowing. He had a firm believer in printer's ink. H e 1, large vision and made great plans not edited and printed a paper called "For 1 only for the development of the country Gammel og Ung, " a Sunday School pa­ . 0. Natest a is .honoi;ed with 1 but for the development of the King- per both in the Norwegian and English invitati on to be tbe guest at t h I language, the "Waisenhus" calendar, dom of God in the country. j �Centen nial Celebration t o b Rev. Homme was born in upper Tel- and a paper called •'The Christian hel,d iri"""lffiffeapolis June 6-10. H lemarken, Norway, October 17, 1843. Youth. " The first paper issued, "For is a-SeR f Ole K . Natesta, the firs , In 1851 his parents immigrated to Gammel og Ung, " has been published Norweg·ian settler in Wisconsin, w America. For · a time he studied at regularly for forty-five years and is settled on a farm south of Clint n i n Luther College, Decorah, Iowa, and still being edited and printed at the 1838 , was ordained for -the ministry in 1867. Children's Home. Rev. Homme was very much interPas'tor Homme managed all those ested in children and his great heart undertakings himself, traveling exten­ yearned for the orphaned, neglected, sively, did a great deal of Home Mis­ and abandoned and otherwise dependent sion work and edited his papers until children. He began agitating for the the time of his death, June 22, 1903. establishment of an orphanage and in Koshkonong in the fifties and six­ The farm of the Children's Home ties was the Mecca of Norwegian 1882 he had gathered enough means with amounts to 400 acres. The capacity is a.t­ colony Vi�consin \ This settlers. which he began the erection of the first ninety children. The capacity of the tracted many sturdy Norsemen and Norwegian Lutheran Children 's Home Old People's Home is ninety inmates. their families and in time lt became t the ·most prosperoits settlement of its I in America. He selected a very beau- Both institutions are in the very best ·ind. tiful site for this fostitution in the pro- of condition. From Koshkonong other parties set posed village· of Wittenberg. This was t to pierce the more western dis­ In 1900 the government purchaf'ed the a two-story frame building on a high building erected by Rev. Homme . and t ·cts, t o cut the logs !11 virgin forwith which to build their cab• e basement. The building was soon filled established its Indian School there and in with children and Rev. Homme was the Church moved its Indian School to A! lOTI� the founders of this colony wer Nils Larson Bolstad, Nils Sjur­ casting about �or ways �nd means of Ingersol, seven miles west of Witten­ ilderhus, Andrew Fenne and ?ot onl� supportmg �he children but also berg, and later back to Wittenbe into Bottolfson Bystol, all from rg rway ; Lars Olson Dug-stad, u�creasmg the capacity of the h�use. . the Academy building whicli> had been Voss, 1 .\ nclrew A.nclerson Bjornefelcl, '.rhor­ Rev. H?mme was a firm bel�ever 1n ·I erected by Rev. Homme. In 1918 the istein 01 1 Bjaadland, who came , printer's mk. Soon after the children s governm ent sold the Indian School, e Restaurationen, and on Kvelve, the father home had . b:en co�pleted he erected which it had greatly improved by the asmus B. Anderson, anot�er bmldmg which was to serve as acquisition of rriore land and buildings, me from Sta vang-er all of whom a prmti_ng office �nd se� era l pa �e�s , back to the Church and the Academy 1 :ounty, and Gu ul Olson Vint1eg­ I frnm Numedal. � ere :d ited and prmted m t h at primi- building was converted into a Home for Frcm this cola tive 8 op. ·w11o became famous. the Aged. This was the beginning of . 1' i o :· Knute Nelson. • . Rev. Homme disc�vered that !he In- tile extensive Charity Work carried on Profossor Rasmus B. ·son , fordtans we�e wandenng ab_ou t m the•' by the Norwegian Lutheran Church of mer Governor Andrew E. forests without God-- and without hope Amenca. South Dakota, formrr G Cllarl<"s N. Herreid oE Sou t h Da � in the world and therefore he decided , �.net Victo1· F. Lawson , At the present time, the Norwegian to build an Indian Mission House and L'J, 1car,-o :rrnbli ,;hn. • this building was soon filled with Indian L_utheran Church of America conducts children. The Indians would aliow him mne Homes for the Aged at Decorah, to have their children, especia lly in the Iowa ; Beresford, South Dakota; Bawlf, winter time, but they told him that Alberta; Coeur D' Alene, Idaho ; Glen­ he did not need to- teach them his re- wood, Minnesota ; Wittenberg, Wiscon­ ligion. Their religion had been good sin ; Stanwood, Washington; Stoughton, enough for their childipn. It may be _ Wisconsin ; a�d Story �it Iowa; with a total capac1ty of 390 m ates and coninteresting to notice that now the i;;- 1 t8 seyen ..Qr.Il.h.ID1a.2:ea ocat�d a-t Be­ .,( By H. B. Kildabl) ians bring their children to the same k In connection with the approaching chool _ but now they are anxious to loit, Iowa; Beresford, South Dak ota ; Centennial Celebration of Norse-Ameri­ ave their children taught in the Christ- Wittenberg, Wisconsin; Lake Park, cans to America, it is i,f- • : &2U le n religion. Af!er the Indian Mission Minnesota; Stoughton, Wisconsin ; Ev­ erett, Washington ; and Twin Valley, rt.,'@e"4!1n: !5� men and women who as built, Rev. Homme erected a parMinnesota; with a total capacity of 881 came from Norway· and who blazed the· onage for himself. When this was children. Three rescue Homes for girls trall fu;• th use who c1:1rne after them and nished; he built an Academy and in who have contributed so much to the �87 he built a Normal School for the_ located at Minneapolis, Minnesota; F'argo, North Dakota; anQ Sioux Falls, development of the Middle West from iurpose of educating school teachers. South Dakota, caring for about 250 a wilderness into what it is today. ( One ii: By this time the original Children's girls and tlieir oab1es annually. Day of the most prominent men among the Home building had become altogether Nurseries and Kindergartens in Brook­ pioneers was Rev. Even Johnson Hom­ too small and Rev. Homme decided to lyn and Chicago. It has also twenty­ me. Twenty-four years 'old, he begar:i build a larger institution. By this time four City, Slum and Hospita_l Mission­ his life work as a pioneer preacher in he had learned that it was not desirable aries in fourteen cities from New York the forests of Wisconsin. These forests to locate the Children's Home within to Los Angeles and it operates the were swarming with Indians. There • the village. Therefore he secured a Lutheran Deaconess Home and Hospiwere rro - railroads in . that part of the large tract of land one and a half miles tal in Chicago, where it trafns deacon­ country and very few white people, but northeast of Wittenberg and on a very esse!' for service for all its charity work Rev. Homme was a man of large vision prominent site he erected another Chi!at home and for Mission Work abroad. . . , and blazed the way for his cQuntrymen dren s Home which 1s to some extent The Ch urch is • domg • a 11 t h"is wor k on who graduallly followed him and took patterned after some of the European 'l budget voted by the Church amount­ up the land which they cleared of for,lcastles from the Middle Ages. It has a 1 ·ng to $238, 373.34 for 1924.-H. B. ,. I I KOSHKONONG WAS MECCA OF NORSE PIONEERS IN 'SOS utstanding Pioneer _ I Iildah . i---=-----------" �i mmi«:cants i n the "Rest auratione11" is today. It is p rob able that m any from also • into New York harbor, o,r about 1 83 6 T H U RS' .... ' l ' 1925 t h at two more small vesse,ils b rought these parts wr;11 be going to attend some 1 50 souls, who wished, to m ake the Norse - American Centennial Ceil­ this lland of plenty the i r home. Most eb ration at St. Paul. Tickets are rro u�US of them c ame ,vest and settled in being sold in advance, and are be­ and near Chicago, but m osit of them i r1g offered for $1 . 00 for the three :Pteparrcti ons are being made on _a in LaSal1te • County, Illinois. It was rather la1 g-e scal0 to celel) rate t his not verv long thereafter that the clay.s doi ngs, unt i l May .15th, when s u n mer the cent n11 i v l or the be gi n - fi r st N�rwegians found t he i r way to this special price ends,. After that nin o of the imrn ig, n ti on of Norwc gi - Lafayette Co. , the fi rst sett l i ng a­ ihey can be secured onl)y at the ad­ �ms"' t o Ame1 ica. This m onster ce 'I' - bout W iota. One among these was he mission 1·ates which willl prevail at L ration \ i l l lie hel,J on the F�ir 1 of whom a brief b iographicrul sketch gates, or half a dollar fqr each day. Grcunds at St. P�n i , 11;1 i 1 n . , h, n follows: • 1• !'8 , b t t_n Local'y, tickets are sold by Rev. 1 • W nn1 ;c; 6-9 ' ·wh •l it Arr.e Anderson Vi nje le ft B os.s, - • pe ,pl e of Ne 1 se e "' , c u '11 'I-\ 1·11 coJr e ( n ear Bergen) for America Apn· 1 1 6 J. A. Houkom , and anyone expectt o tlrnt J> ,:,ce hy il' e hi n cl i e t!s c 1 84•0 , i n company with some 20 per: ing- to go should secure one at the t l10usanJs. P. n d t h e 1 1'",,a;.\t i ·,ns a n sons . Thev were a.bout five months f\·a nce sa'1e price befo1·e next Fri. llv \\ , n • ,it tlir· o n the oc� <111 and arrived i n Chicago tr.e )Jt Of, t 1·.. expend itu, e d t iu3 and FOncv foi in S�p temb ei. l\rne Anderson V i nje anyone , ,, hell' e r Norf,e o r not,_ t o loc at e d for the t'lme being i n Chica .. m ake the tlip the1e fo r the occ a s ion. go . where with And. Nelson B raekke, THU RSDAY. N i ... ,., Some of the at traclicns wh ich w i l l be they i)u i l t a log housie. But the next A 1fot1ier \.ie ntenuia1. offered are as foB.ows: President Cool- spring Arne Ande rson Vi nje and Pet ­ A few days after the Norse­ j dge will Yisit and a·ddress the gath - er Davidson Skjervhei m , each with e r i ng· as wHl also Sec r e tary of Stat e a yok e of o x en, after five da,ys Clf A rican Cent-enni e . e un re· th Kel:��g and other offic ials , of the travel, arrived .at H am i l ton Diggi ns place, , n ati o nal govemment. Pr i m e- Minist er ( W i o•t a) J u,l y 7 , 1 841 . (Arne, Ander-• day anniversary of Rev. Mowinkel, Bi.d1cp Lunde of Oslo, the son Vinje was an anc-e stor of Chief Preus was celebrated at a ban­ Pr imate of the Chu rch of Norway, Justi ce Vinj e of the state suprem e quet in Odin Club, Minneapolis. an d represent at ives of t"h e Sto r thing c ourt. ) I f you note the date yon will Mr. Preus-the g-randfather • of of Norway, have promiseu t o come, see t h at some of the very earl i est the late Governor J. A. 0. Preus l i kewise the p1 ime m i n isters of Ice, p ioneers settled in this vicinity. As -was born in Kristianssand, Nor­ way, June 16, 1825, graduated il a n d, Canada and several of t he Ca n- they arriv ed i n l arger number,s . adi an provinces and the governors of inost of them came by way of Mil­ from the University of Norway, sei<;era.l' of the states of t.)1e Union. waukee but many came by way of and came to the United States i n Mentio n mPsL b m ade also of the Chic ago. Wiota, Rock county and 1849. H e was one o f the found­ Acadc11'ie C,11 ir of t he University of Koshkonong were the nearb y p l aces ers of the Norwegian Synod O<>Jo , ]'Jn,· ,va/, St. Ol af Luthe ran whe re the majority of the immi­ whose president he was from 1862 until his death in 1894. Choil', St. O l r f and Lut her Col l eges , grants located, and b, ) C e C.1 Ang,hnn; B. n ·•,s·, the The following named persons . ob O i h 1 r usi�nl oris n i " " · ons too num tained government land and were er l " tr:> L 0 ,1t ·o•1. <\ s;,eci a l feature among the fi rst settlers i n Lafayette of th la t e, e 1' " 's ent 0 rtainn, e n , county: Knut Knudson, !Nels L. Fen w'll , , D- ir nst l' 1) L,e,n,.1l, do: i c 1 i n n e , Aµ,� A . Vinje,, Peter \'kjedv• , ai i ous acts find fea1 ures of No1 "'' • heim. Ne1s.._ Nelson , O\e And ,,·son, i n> m i g, atif'n and pio11eer l i fe here. E.rIB:;_ 'Engelbre ts:o n,_ a«idr Helge 1)1, An actual•-'.,ized 1 e. il i c a of the bont son. "R c staurat L nen", the May riower of When the railroad wa.g built as far the North, the lit L le open ship in a.s Monroe, many arrived at that which the first 53 immi_g:rants b raved place, and then conti nued their jour ­ the waves of the Atlantic to come to ney to the i r chosen homes by foot o r America, will b e o n exhibition. The by ox team. l\'I, ,nn,e. wa·; , at that world's ilarg·est dirigib le ai rship 'Th e time, the end of the l'i ne. Los Angeles' and a a.i r fle et of fi fty I t will thus be seen that Wisconsin pl anes wil l m ake t he trip to Fair was the destination of many of the Grounds for the event and will! be early No rwegi an i m migra nts. Later, on' exhibition. "The Los Angelles" wi ll the lure of the great wheat fields of pass over Mi lwaukee, and perhaps Minnesota, I owa and the Dakotas Madison, on its trip from Washing- [ drew the greate r 1 1ass of 'th i m m.i -• � _ � t.on to St. Paul. , TheE(e are but a few I grants in the s1xt1es, sevent1e.s and bu t the most outst and ing features of e i ght i es, when the number began to t he attractions , offered, ·an of which decre a se. show that this celebrat ion in p reparWhile this ead[y hi.story is very i n­ ation wilt be of international! .scope te resting·, reciting- the explo its of and i mportance. the sturdy forefathe,·s of EiO many o.f As preparations are thus being the readers of the Blade, we cannot made to celebrate the coming· of the very well l <>'O fu rther i nto detail. The early Norse immigrants to America, eaa-:ty No rs� settlers were almost al l class of a :11ittle ea.rly history of more !local lrf the h ardy a:,;rici • rlll i nterest, pertaining to their coming th ��try, and their s � , I to Wisconsin, and to Lafayette and I whi l e most remarkable, is but one I Green Counties in particular, m,ay be episode i n the grand explicits of m i l - 1 !lions of those from all parts of northi n order. It was about a decade after the ar - ern Europe, who came here, and rival of the first l i ttle boatlload of who have , un der God and our fr ee i nsti tutions, made this land what it �lanchardvi 11" � 1 ·� N O�l�}� ��!�.JleetAffair I �� .,.. ,, • efa;rf! �� . l .e::irl• 1,, t WEDNEs.pA.Y..MA:RCH 25, 1925 _ _ efutribution of Norse to be Given Marked Observance r• Through interest taken by said men as Editor William Ager and others contributio ns of the Nor­ wegian race to America will be giv­ en marked observances by Wiscon­ sin and other states as wel l as · the nation• t'J.i.� year, the centennia l of the beginning of the Ncrwog ian im migrat ion in the United States. I The centenni al wiU be m arked with a celebra tion in Juno. Ofl'icial recognit ion of the a--rinl dJt£M} itiJti "W ill be taken by the governm ent in· the form of a special stamp issue. The Norwe gian elemen t has been one ot the great factors in the de­ velopm ent of the northw est . Wis­ _consin was for some decad es th� chief home oj. the nationa lity and fm· ii'E1ted thousands- of colonists for states farther west. I '\Visconsln raised a Norwegian reg iment during the Civil war, the gallant Fifteenth Wisconsin, which fltanda first among Wisconsin regi­ m ents in losses and sacrifices for tlie union. Its colonel, Hans C. Heg, 1 fell at Chick amauga while leading • a brigade, one of the two highest Wisconsin officers killed d uring the ..war. The first Norwegian newspaper in Am erica was printed m Col. Reg' s father's house i n the Muske­ go settlement, Racine co 1.m ty, where Col. I-leg is buried. A fund has been raised for a statue to commemorate the services and fame of Col. Heg , and as a . memo l to the Ffteeni.h Wisconsi and the Norwegian pi Qneer el ru ent, '11/'h ich statue it i s proposed t have unveiled in the capitol park on September 1 8 , the anniversary of the battle of Chickamauga. A reso1 ution authorizing the erection of the statue at Madison has already been adopted by the assemb ly and is now before tlfe senate for final action. St. Paul, Minn., N ew ::­ S';JNDAY, JUNE 7, 1925 �t Civil ­ �rrna e o 1sconsm 1"jfvegian Birthplace Ded icates Mo nument To A merican Soldier OSL O, Norway, .June 25 (/P) .-A bronze monument to Colonel Hans enth Heg , commander of the FifteCivil Wis�onsin Regiment l.n the of the front War, was unveiled in part county hall at Lier today as nnial of the Norse-American cente at­ celebration. The ceremony was s. tended bY about 200 American The statue, \a duplicate of one t_he unveiled a few weeks ago onWis. capitol grounds at Madison,ericans, is a gift from the Norse-Am Colo­ of the Midwest to Lier, where nel Heg was born. The American Minister, Laurits a­ S Swenson delivered the dedic to tion addre;s. Paying tribute or­ the spiri t of Colon el Reg_ in was h whic ganiz ing the regiment, _ s, composed chief ly of Nor�iteg1an d woul d hope he said ter the Minis "help stimulate many young Nor­ high wegians to follow the same ideals." Other speakers were Secret.- c. t, r Rolf .Jacksobsen ar? 'l;, eaker of the Storth � Ly This l s the statue of Col. Haris_ Reg, who organized and commanded the 15th '\ Visconsin volunteers, a Norse regiment which fought in the Civil war. Coi'. Reg was killed at the batlle ot Chi ckamauga in 1863. His life is the central theme of a1 pageant to be given duriii:g the "Np-American ; centenni�.l program befo�!!' @ $ fair grounds grandstand Tuesday night. 1'he statue was donated to the state of ViTisconsin by the Norse so­ ciety, of wh i ch 0. P. B. Jacobson is president. It wm be placed on· the I state capitol , gr,ounds at Madison, 1 Wis., and dedicated July 4. ' The statue is the work of Paul Fjelde, New York, who now is study­ ! ing In Europe on a, scholarship ' awarded by the Amerlcai,\.. Scandi1 navian foundation. He is a sou· of the late Jacob Fjelde, sculptor of the Ole Bull statue in Loring park, Min­ ,ncapolis . �I • one of tl'-e airships be sent to th 1 (By Associated Pres!) . OLSO, June . 9-It was announced rescuo, the secretary declared, "Wf Crooksto-n. Minn., Tim P" today.that the ·Norwegian -Aero'asi!- are not goi ng to send any wild goose to the polar regions." The MO N D AY. JU N E 1. 192:i oci!ttion has asked the • Amunda'en chase NavY Department has not changed Ame�ican • committee • to . • organizo Its opinion that such an expedition an '.Amei::ican Relief , expadttton.- · · Is not feasible, and Mr. Wi lbur WASHINGTON, June •. 9:_S·ecre• pointe d , out yesterday that. if sent, tary . Wil�ur • has , no ' intention . - or It could not be ready to operate be­ sending either of , the , dirigibles, fore the three airplan es with the Los . Angele;11 . and ,, Sllenandoah, , in MacMillan Arctic expedition could search · of the • mfa slng" Ariiundsen I make a search for Amundsen. Difficulties attending a dirigible , , ,. polar expedition. . No Willi Goose Chase •. , 1 flight to the pole, he believes, would be greater than thos� heavier ma­ In announcing •refusal. of 11. req ue1,t . . 'by the Nbr.Wegian abritl isodet?· chines, with th e alrslup more highly s usceptible to weather condltiQns. that one o:t the airship.s be s e t . to . P. . 1 An added danger, he said. wo ul d Kolakol a, Eskimol and, June 1--: ( BY' he ,rascu e, • t�e _aeeretary• declare�, , lie in possible recurre nce of engine � n" aerop1a the Artie Press) - :t largb we.are not going to �a:Ite. 11:nY: wiJ1 trouble wh ich forced the Los passed over this city. a.t 2 a. �- thi::1 go_ose• cha'Se ·to , the p_olar Tegi?n s ." \ mol'nin g. It was decorat ed with an The navy department ha· , not Angeles - to break off her trip to _ .; · Minnesota. Ami>ric an fl a g in front antl a Nor\1·e­ · The Los A ngele s, which turned g i :lll tlag at the rear. The Daily Dllz­ �hl!'nged its opinion that , 1St1,cp. 11:n n � sen a dition is not feasible, Mr. Wil· back Su nday at Cleveland • when exp· za rt! will say that It is Am.µ�d • ' �L at mal Cente:n tnotors conn ected wit h her water bur said. ' h i s way to the Norse l p�ul. \Difficulties attending a 'dirigible recovery system failed, will resume 1 flight to tlie pole; the seereta'ry 1 b e· her 'fllght to Mi nnesota. probably Ueves, would· lie greater than · th os e tomorrow epal r s are of heavier machin es, with' the air- Ce ntenn e secretary announced. ship moo�ing • at · ev-ary wea.ther Meanwhile another Amundse n rechange. , . lief party . Is reported forming in Plan An other Exp e dition Paris. Dispatches last night reThe · Los . Angeles, which· turned lated that Dr. Jean Charcot, polar back · Sunday at Clev�la:nd · -wh en explorer, Intends to leave early in motors connected woith ' her water July search for the adventurers. recovery' syst•am failed, : wil l • t•e- T renchman believes that the sume her :flight to Minnes ota, prob · peditlon ls safe a nd is attempting ably' tomorrow ' for . the Norse-Am- to reach civilization before the polar ·w1 nter beglr/s. • • ' erlcan centenn a , e;.; soon State I•' air Grounds, "Minneapo­ pairs , are affected, the secretarl· A similar view was expressed by lis-St. P a u l , i\'T inn . , J une 8.­ i:neteorologlsts and airplane e�perts announced. ilXS ) -Presi<len t Cooli dge. i n h is Meanwhile, an'other Amundsen who ret,u rned to Bergen, Norway, arldre�s before tlrn N o �-MJ P-i­ can C ll • �, 10n f-ici"e relief party is reported formh, g in yesterday from Spltzbe rgen, where t o ar, paid g_l o wing tribute to tile Paris. Dispatches last ntght· . -.1lat� they we re associated with the Amundsen party i n preliminary darin g of the blonde sons of :Nor• ed that Dr. Jean Charoot, polar ex• way, sin,:ling out especially the i n , pre parations for the vent,ure . They plorer, inteu,ds to leave early in .were tre11id Amun dsen , n o w missing: confident that the e xpedition July · to search for the Amundsen is sa!e and that its members .are �om ewhere in the ice wast es near I t party. · The Frenchman belieV'aS the top of the world . hiking across the Ice fields toward "They found the western ocean ' ' < that the expedition i s safe anq. b Cape Columbia . he sai d, "and !t was a Norseman , attempting to reach a 'S ettlem<1 nt Unless the. missing party Is heard who first traYi>rsed Bering Straits the polar wi from by August 1, when the Maca n d dPm onstrated that there was 1 before Millan party will reach Etah, in no land con nectio n between Asia Greenland, Boston dispatches said, • and �orth America . . . , Within l A'i':'!Z'!!.O MacM!llan may start a search at a very few years one of them first that time, using two of his naval t riwersed t he north west passage planes. • • He propose s to trace from Atlantic to Paci fic ; ancl the same one, Am undsen, carried the -Amundsen 's su·pposed course be­ ����������==:,-,=-=-=-=-=-=-= flag of Norway to the south pole ; tween Cape C a nd the pol e. and now, wi thin a few days past, = I he has again been the first to Asks for U. S. Relief , make large explorations in t h e re­ OSLO, .J.unp !! .- (By A. P.)-It w s gion of the no rth pole i11 an air­ u h e eg plane, t empting a fate which , as I �:�- ��o���:�: _a�:: !:':�� � write, is u nknown . " Amundse n American committe e organtze an American relief t!on. AMUNDSEN HEADED FOR CENTENNIAL WILBUR NOT TO SEND D IRIGIB LE Towa CHv. 'h .. Citizen TU,.,.SDA):. J N • lll25 ASK AMUNDSEN AID FRO.M tt· ' . Want Dirigibl� , to Go N�rthward ; . , Wilbur lte­ fuses. Norwegian Requ�st ------------ ·· -­ ------ r Ailiul}d en H< ould t3e Wild WASHINGTON, Ju n e 9,-(By A P.)-Secretary '\'Vllbur has no In tentton of sPnding either of th diriglhles, Los Angeles and Shen andoah, in search of the mlssln1 Amu nds,.n polar expedition . I n an nouncing refusal of a reques by the Norwegia n Ae ro Club tha �., IVflnne apolis, Minn .. Mor. Trib1i1v _ . Fl�DAY, j ,., '4 L, 19;.:5 �t Norse Cable Amundsen Cong,ratulations Message Sent to Spit�bergen by Dr. Bothne of Cen­ tennial Committee. The congratulations of Norse-Amer­ icans of the northwest were ca­ l bled to Roald Amundsen and members of his party at Sp!tzbergen Thu:i;sday night by Dr. Gisle Bothne, chairman of 1 the executive committtee of the Norse• 1 American centennial; "'i</e were indeed glad to hear of t.h e sate return of Mr. Amundsen," Dr. Bothne said, in discussing the return. "He deserves the congratulatoins of every 1nembe1· of his race for his dar­ ing venture and successful retur n ." The cablegram was signed by Dr. Bothne as head of the centennial com• 'l � Kildal of New, York city, a friend of Amundsen and an official rep• resentative of the Norwegian govern­ ment at the Norse-American centennial celebration, said he was certain the ex­ plorer will make another attempt to reach the pole by air. "Amundsen comes of hardy Viking stock, and undoul:)tedly 'Will try once more," Mr. Kildal said. "He is the greatest of all arctic explorers and we I have every faith and conflaence in him. J We know that he will continue his quest of the pole until he succeeds." Norwegians, Mr. Kildal said, never once Jost confidence that Amunds9' would return. / �� https://www.norwegianamericanhistory.org/digital-collections/files/original/792dc03d86337b231fa8d129b95ea42a.pdf c40c8da4b11147f016f3e3affbdbdf89 PDF Text Text Title: Clipping scrapbook, 1925 March 12-1925 June 30 Creator: Hertsgaard, O.L. Date: 1925 March 12-1925 June 30 Identifier: p0562_clippings_02 Front Cover Table of Contents Page 1 Foreigners Seek Home Conditions, 1925 June 8; A Century of Norse Migration, 1925 March 19 Page 2 A Century of Norse Migration, 1925 March 19 (continued); Norwegian In U.S. 100 Years, 1925 April 2 Page 3 The Norse Centenary, 1925 April 9; A Viking Centennial, 1925 May 21; Norse-American Hold Centennial, 1925 May 21; Centennial Celebration, 1925 May 29 Page 4 The Norse-Americans, 1925 June 8; The Norse-American Centennial, 1925 June 5; Welcome!, 1925 June 6; Norse are Leaders in Many Lines of Endeavor, 1925 June 9 Page 5 Norse are Leaders in Many Lines of Endeavor, 1925 June 9 (continued); Minnesotans Heard Ole Bulle in 1856, 1925 June 11; Senator Shipstead is Norse-American Who Has Won High Mark in Politics, 1925 June 10 Page 6 Senator Shipstead is Norse-American Who Has Won High Mark in Politics, 1925 June 10 (continued); Hats Off, To The Norwegians, 1925 June 10; The Norse Centennial, 1925 June 11 �Page 7 General Bjornstad, Minneapolis Native to be Honor Guest, 1925 June 7; Firemen of Norse Blood Show Worth by Deeds of Valor, 1925 Page 8 The Unsung Millions, 1925 June 26; Coolidge Has Praise for Norway's Sons, 1925 June 5; President Finds Kindred Natures in Minnesota, 1925 June 10; Norway Pilgrims to This Country Praised by Cal, 1925 June 8 Page 9 Norway Pilgrims to This Country Praised by Cal, 1925 June 8 (continued); Coolidge Lauds Old Norsemen, 1925 June 9 Page 10 Coolidge Lauds Old Norsemen, 1925 June 9 (continued); President Coolidge Pays Respect to Norsemen and Their Sons, 1925 June 11 Page 11 President Coolidge Pays Respect to Norsemen and Their Sons, 1925 June 11 (continued) Page 12 Religion Trait of Nrose Immigrants to United States, 1925 March 12; Norse Conquer By the Plow Rather Than the Sword Say Shipstead, 1925 June 9; Welcome, Norsemen!, 1925 June 2 Page 13 S.D. Indebted to Norse, Glenn Says, 1925 June 12; Contributions of Norway to U.S. Acclaimed, 1925 June 10; The Norse-American Centennial Fest, 1925 May 13 Page 14 Communications, 1925 April 24; Norse-American Centennial, 1925 May 28; The Norse-American Centennial, 1925 June 10 Page 15 The Norse-American Centennial, 1925 June 10 (continued); America's Norwegian Fellow Citizens, 1925 June 13 Page 16 America's Norwegian Fellow Citizens, 1925 June 13 (continued); Recounting Achievements of the Norwegians in America, 1925 May 31; Norse Centennial, 1925 June 10 Page 17 Norse Centennial, 1925 June 10 (continued); Norwegians Have Had Great Part in Building South Dakota Wealth, 1925 June 8 Page 18 Haynes Thanks N.W. Norse-Americans for Support of Dry Law, 1925 June 27; �A Foreigner has Made Good, 1925 June 11; Page 19 N.Y. Recognizes Norse Centennial, 1925 May 2; Letters to the Editor, a Notable Anniversary, 1925 June 18; Leif vs Christofo, 1925 June 11; Leif Ericson, 1925 June 24 Page 20 Leif Ericson, 1925 June 24 (continued); Did the Norsemen Discover America?, 1925 Page 21 To Whom did Coolidge Refer?, 1925 June 18; The First Norse-American, 1925 June 28; A Coolidge Sensation, 1925 June 19; Untitled, 1925 June 30 Page 22 Pioneers in Orleans Were Norwegians; Settled Near Kendal, 1925 June 9; Descendants of Norse 'Mayflower' Pioneers at Centennial Celebration, 1925 June 9 Page 23 Local Man's Mother Came Over in 1825, 1925 May 1; Relatives Guests of Two Nations, 1925 June 18; Norse Centennial, 1925 June 4; Is First Norwegian Man Born in Iowa, 1925 May 21 Page 24 Whiting Pioneers at Norse Celebration, 1925 June 18; Interesting Facts About the Norse Centennial, 1925 June 4 Page 25 Norse Ceremony Recalls Olmsted Early Settlers, 1925 May 27; Norwegians First Settled in Dakota in Clay County, 1925 May 29 Page 26 Norwegians First Settled in Dakota in Clay County, 1925 May 29 (continued); Knute Nelson Called Greatest American Of Norwegian Birth, Inspiration to Alien, 1925 June 7 Page 27 Untitled, 1925 April 18; Koshkonong Was Meccas of Norse Pioneers in '50s, 1925; An Outstanding Pioneer, 1925 April 23 Page 28 Norse-American Meet To Be Monstrous Affair, 1925 May 14; Another Centennial, 1925 June 23 Page 29 Contribution of Norse to be Given Marked Observance, 1925 March 25; �Norwegian Birthplace Dedicates Monument to American Soldier, 1925 June 25; Statue of Norwegian, Civil War Commander, Donated to Wisconsin, 1925 June 7 Page 30 Amundsen Headed for Centennial, 1925 June 1; President in Tribute to Amundsen, 1925 June 8; Ask Amundsen Aid From U.S., 1925 June 9; Wilbur Not To Send Dirigible, 1925 June 13 Page 31 Northwest Norse Cable Amundsen Congratulations, 1925 June 19 Back Cover � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Norse-American Centennial Papers (P0562) Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context P0562 Description An account of the resource <p><span>Correspondence, minutes, financial records, reports, programs, clippings, pictures, pamphlets, and scrapbooks of an association incorporated in 1925 in St. Paul, Minnesota, to supervise the observance of the arrival of the first group of Norwegian immigrants in America. The collection describes in detail the management of the celebration and gives data on observances in Chicago, Canada, Boston, and Brooklyn. Letters and essays reveal the loyalty of Norwegian Americans to their cultural heritage and the rivalry among area groups of Norwegians in America. The celebration was initiated by the bygdelags. The chief officials were Gisle Bothne, S. H. Holstad, J. A. Holvik, Elisa P. Farseth, and Mrs. Wm. O. Storlie. Correspondents include Juul Dieserud, Knut Gjerset, Hanna Astrup Larsen, and O. M. Norlie. The centennial received nationwide press coverage.</span></p> <b>Funding:</b><span><br /></span><span>Funding to digitize the Norse-American Centennial papers provided to the Norwegian-American Historical Association through the Minnesota Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund, a component of the Minnesota Clean Water, Land and Legacy constitutional amendment, ratified by Minnesota voters in 2008.</span> Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. 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Please refer to the organization that has made the Item available for more information. Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Newspapers Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Hertsgaard, O.L. Description An account of the resource Clipping scrapbook created by O.L. Hertsgaard. Bibliographic Citation A bibliographic reference for the resource. Recommended practice is to include sufficient bibliographic detail to identify the resource as unambiguously as possible. [Indicate the cited item here]. Norse-American Centennial Papers. Norwegian American Historical Association, Northfield, Minnesota. Text